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Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Measures

The Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey consists of 19 measures that assess the experiences of Medicaid participants’ age 18 and older receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS). The measures report a case-mix adjusted top-box score. Measure scores are calculated based on participant responses to a cross-disability survey about their experiences with the LTSS they receive in the community, delivered through a Medicaid-funded HCBS program.

CBE ID
2967

Home Health Care CAHPS Survey (HHCAHPS)

The updated Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems® (CAHPS) Home Health Care Survey, also referred as “HHCAHPS,” is a 25-item instrument. This is a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring home health patients’ perspectives on their home health care in Medicare-certified home health care agencies. The survey is administered monthly to patients who recently received or are receiving home health care from Medicare-certified home health agencies. It is offered as mail-only, phone-only or mixed mode (mail with telephone follow-up).

CBE ID
0517

Hospice and Palliative Care -- Pain Assessment

This quality measure is defined as:
Percentage of hospice or palliative care patients who screened positive for pain and who received a clinical assessment of pain within 24 hours of screening.

CBE ID
1637

Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure—Comprehensive Assessment at Admission

The Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure assesses the percentage of hospice stays in which patients who received a comprehensive patient assessment at hospice admission. The measure focuses on hospice patients age 18 years and older. A total of seven individual NQF endorsed component quality will provide the source data for this comprehensive assessment measure, including NQF #1634, NQF #1637, NQF #1639, NQF #1638, NQF #1617, NQF #1641, and NQF #1647. These seven measures are currently implemented in the CMS HQRP.

CBE ID
3235

Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life

The proportion of hospice patients who received hospice visits from a Registered Nurse or Medical Social Worker (non-telephonically) associated with the measured hospice entity during at least two of the final three days of life.

CBE ID
3645

Hospital 30-day all-cause risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospitalization.

The measure estimates a hospital-level 30-day, all-cause, risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) for patients age 65 and older discharged from the hospital with a principal diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Readmission is defined as unplanned readmission for any cause within 30 days of the discharge date for the index admission. Readmissions are classified as planned and unplanned by applying the planned readmission algorithm.

CBE ID
0505