Letters of SNF and Hospice Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Non-compliance Available, Reconsideration Request Deadline August 15

Letters of SNF and Hospice Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Non-compliance Available, Reconsideration Request Deadline August 15

SNF and Hospice providers- please check your CASPER folders in the QIES system to see if you have a letter of non-compliance for the QRP.

Receipt of such a letter indicates providers failed to meet the reporting requirements of the QRP. Non-compliant providers will be subject to a 2% reduction in their Medicare rates beginning October 1, 2019 unless they request and receive reconsideration of the non-compliance.

Providers have until 11:59pm PST on August 15, 2019 to request reconsideration of the non-compliance based upon the instructions provided in the letter or this information can also be found on the SNF Quality Reporting Reconsideration and Exception & Extension webpage

(https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/Skilled-Nursing-Facility-Quality-Reporting-Program/SNF-QR-Reconsideration-and-Exception-and-Extension.html)  and for Hospice providers on the Hospice Reconsideration Requests page at:  https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Reconsideration-Requests.html.

CMS placed letters of noncompliance in facilities’ CASPER folders as of July 16. The same noncompliance letters are also being sent by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).