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Reminder of Upcoming Home Health Care CAHPS Data Submission Deadline
folder_openData Submissionscalendar_todayPosted December 9, 2011

This announcement is to remind approved survey vendors of the Home Health Care CAHPS (HHCAHPS) Survey data submission deadline for data collected for sample months in Quarter 3 of calendar year 2011 (CY11,Q3). Data from patients sampled for the July, August, and September 2011 sample months must be submitted to the Data Center no later than 11:59 PM Eastern Time on January 23, 2012.

Please check your Vendor Authorization Reports regularly to ensure that each home health agency (HHA) with which your organization is contracted to submit HHCAHPS Survey data has completed the online Vendor Authorization Form on the HHCAHPS Web site. Remember that the HHCAHPS Data Center will not accept data files from a vendor unless the HHA has authorized the HHCAHPS vendor to submit data on its behalf.

As always, we urge you to submit CY11,Q3 HHCAHPS data well before the data submission deadline to ensure that there is time to identify and correct problems in data files and resubmit those files before the deadline. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) will not accept any data files for Quarter 3 after 11:59 Eastern Time on January 23, 2012.

Also be reminded that all submitted data files must pass the validation checks that are conducted within 24 hours after a file is submitted before they are accepted; therefore it is recommended that files are submitted at least two days prior to the deadline to ensure that they pass all validation checks.