Hospice News December 15, 2021
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has unveiled two new patient-reported quality measures for community-based palliative care. These were born as part of the first funding initiatives to develop measures for the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program, including the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and alternative payment models.
CMS in 2018 awarded $5.5 million to support a three-year palliative care project aimed at developing, improving and expanding measures to improve patient outcomes and drive high-quality care. A public-private coalition of seven organizations collaborated on the project. With the recent completion of the Palliative Care Measures Project this month, these measures became available to hospice, palliative care and other providers to implement...
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