by Noah Larsen | Feb 6, 2023 | Patient Experience
CMS has announced that new mode adjustments will be applied to HCAHPS data, starting with patients discharged in January 2023. These mode adjustments were derived using the data gathered during CMS’ 2021 mode experiment. The mode adjustment allows CMS to account...
by Noah Larsen | Jan 30, 2023 | Patient Experience
CMS recently released its CY 2022 Final Rule for Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery (OAS) CAHPS. In accordance with previous Rules, this Final Rule included the future timeline where OAS CAHPS will become a mandatory survey for VBP reimbursement starting in CY 2024 and...
by Noah Larsen | Aug 26, 2022 | Patient Experience
CMS recently finalized proposals for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems (IPPS), which can be viewed here. As proposed in May, for FFY2023, CMS is suppressing several VBP measures and implementing a special scoring methodology that results in each...
by Noah Larsen | Mar 17, 2022 | Patient Experience
During a recent HCAHPS update vendor training, CMS also validated what many of PRC’s clients are seeing – since Q1 2020, publicly reported HCAHPS scores have fallen and remain lower than pre-pandemic levels across all HCAHPS measures. While we expected we would see...
by Noah Larsen | Mar 17, 2022 | Patient Experience
During a recent HCAHPS update vendor training, CMS discussed preliminary findings from last year’s HCAHPS mode experiment and a loose timeline for what they’re referring to as “HCAHPS 2.0.” CMS conducted a mode experiment with 45 nationally representative hospitals...
