by Noah Larsen | Aug 21, 2020 | Patient Experience
Your hospital has recently received your annual VBP report from CMS, and now your leaders are asking, “How does this information relate to the improvement work we are doing NOW?” PRC’s Jan Gnida, CPXP, will walk you through how to use our innovative VBP Calculator on...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Mar 25, 2020 | Patient Experience
In response to the extreme and uncontrollable circumstances we are experiencing, CMS published a press release this weekend outlining exceptions and extensions for many CMS deadlines. CMS recognizes that data collected during this time may not reflect the “true level...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Nov 12, 2019 | Patient Experience
On August 8, 2019, CMS published the proposed rule in the Federal Register for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems. At this time, CMS is not proposing any changes to the 2020 OAS CAHPS survey. If finalized in the...
by Isaiah Dominguez | Oct 23, 2019 | Patient Experience
Each year, acute-care hospitals participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program receive scores based on their performance. According to CMS’ website, they designed the VBP program with the intent...
by Noah Larsen | Aug 29, 2019 | Patient Experience
One of the goals of HCAHPS is to produce fair comparisons of hospitals; to that end, there are two adjustments that CMS applies to your data before scores are publicly reported on Hospital Compare: a patient mix adjustment (PMA) and a mode adjustment.
