The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking providers to help design a new survey of patient experience in long-term care hospitals, according to Healthcare Finance.
Here are five things to know:
1. The information derived from physicians' comments will be developed into a quality measure for the Long-Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program.
2. Providers must submit comments by Jan. 19, 2016.
3. CMS' new survey is part of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, a survey of patients' views on healthcare.
4. The survey will be comprised of patients who have complex and severe conditions and are in need of critical care-related services for an extended period of time.
5. In the past, CMS implemented Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient surveys for inpatient and outpatient settings and for different services including Medicare health and drug plans, among others.