A Descriptive Study of California Hospice Providers’ Perceptions of Public Reporting of Quality Data Using the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey
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A Descriptive Study of California Hospice Providers’ Perceptions of Public Reporting of Quality Data Using the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care Survey
The Affordable Care Act requires US hospices to report quality data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2013 with data eventually being made public. There may be some benefit to participating in a voluntary public-reporting program prior to public disclosure by CMS; therefore, we developed and conducted an electronic survey exploring California hospices’ perceptions of public reporting. The majority (78.1%) of respondents reported current use of the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care tool and a willingness to consider voluntary participation in a public-reporting program outside of what is being implemented by CMS (58.6%). Tax status of responding hospices was not predictive of a willingness to participate in a statewide public-reporting program of hospice quality in our study.
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