CMS has granted disaster-related exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to home health agencies, hospices and many other types of providers in areas affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
 
For certain Texas, Louisiana and Florida home health agencies and hospices, memos from CMS state, the federal Medicare agency “is granting an exception to all Quality Reporting Program (QRP) reporting requirements, including the reporting of data on measures and any other data requested by CMS for the post-acute care (PAC) quality reporting programs” for the second and third quarters of 2017. 
 
Related links: Read CMS’ memo about Harvey at http://go.cms.gov/2f7U5a7 and CMS’ memo about Irma at http://go.cms.gov/2xuZ4fC to learn if your agency is included.