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Announcement about Upcoming Home Health Care CAHPS Data Submission Deadline
folder_openData Submissionscalendar_todayPosted March 2, 2011

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting Home Health Care CAHPS (HHCAHPS) Survey data for Quarter 4 of calendar year 2010 (CY10, Q4) is fast approaching. Data from patients sampled for the October, November, and December 2010 sample months must be submitted to the HHCAHPS Data Center no later than 11:59 PM on April 21, 2011.

As always, CMS encourages HHCAHPS Survey vendors to submit data to the HHCAHPS Data Center well before the data submission deadline to ensure that there is adequate time to correct any problems detected and resubmit the files before the deadline. Keep in mind that each file submitted will undergo validation checks as it is being submitted and must pass additional validation checks which are run overnight (referred to as the overnight validation). If a vendor waits until the day of the deadline to submit a file, the vendor will not have an opportunity to correct and resubmit the file if it does not pass the overnight validations. CMS will not allow the Data Center to accept any files after the data submission deadline has passed.

Home health agencies should be reminded that the primary reason HHCAHPS data files were rejected for CY10, Q3 was that the agency had not authorized its HHCAHPS Survey vendor to submit data on its behalf. If your home health agency has not yet completed the online Authorize a Vendor Form, please do so as soon as possible. When completing the online form, which is available on the HHCAHPS Web site at https://homehealthcahps.org/ForHHAs/AuthorizeaVendor.aspx, please make sure that the Start Date that you enter is the first day of the first quarter in which your survey vendor is authorized to submit data on your behalf. For example, if the first month that you participated in HHCAHPS is February 2011, you would enter January 1, 2011 as the Start Date.