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2021 CAHPS® Round-Up

2021 CAHPS® Round-Up

Joni Jan Gnida, CPXP, and Andrea Paseka, BA, two of PRC’s resident CAHPS® experts, for a webinar that covers developments and updates in CAHPS® and VBP throughout 2021, along with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient perceptions and CAHPS® performance....
CMS Publishes OPPS Proposed Rule 2021

CMS Publishes OPPS Proposed Rule 2021

CMS published an OPPS proposed rule in the Federal Register which contains important information for several different programs, including OAS CAHPS and the Radiation Oncology (RO) Model. They also propose establishing a new provider type—a Rural Emergency Hospital...
OAS CAHPS Looks Ahead

OAS CAHPS Looks Ahead

During a recent OAS CAHPS vendor training, the OAS CAHPS Project Team covered some developments in the OAS CAHPS realm. They gave more detail on the OAS CAHPS mode experiment from 2019, where they tested a few new options, including web-only, web with mail follow-up,...
OAS CAHPS Proposed Rule

OAS CAHPS Proposed Rule

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...
OAS CAHPS Updates

OAS CAHPS Updates

The Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (OAS CAHPS) program released several updates at the end of July 2018. The Federal Register published a proposed rule giving direction on OAS administration requirements. OAS...