CMS will offer two free webinars to help hospices prepare for quality reporting.

Data collection for the mandatory reporting phase is set to begin Oct. 1 and hospices that don't comply stand to lose 2% of their market basket update in the following year.

The two CMS webinars are scheduled for April 11 from 1-2:30 pm EST and for April 19 from 3-4:30 pm EST. Both webinars will cover the two required measures and how to report them.

The two measures include a quality measure on how well hospices controlled pain and a structural measure that asks hospices to report their participation in quality assessment and performance improvement (QAPI) programs (for more on the measures, go here.)

Registration information for the webinar is not yet available. For future announcements, watch the CMS quality reporting page here.