Patient count variable will be changed to accept up to 3 digits
folder_openChanges to Protocols and Guidelinescalendar_todayPosted April 1, 2010

This announcement is to alert survey vendors that the Home Health Care CAHPS Survey Coordination Team is changing the valid values for the Number of Skilled Visits: in the patient administrative data record of the XML submission tool from 1-99 to 001-999. This change is being made to allow vendors to record more than 99 visits if the patient had more than 99 skilled home health care visits within a sample month. The variable in Appendices L, M, and N in the Home Health Care CAHPS Survey Protocol and Guidelines Manual, Version 2.0 will reflect this change in the next iteration of the Manual.