Courtesy of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC)

The deadline for home health agencies to submit a request for an exemption from participating in the Home Health Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey for the CY 2023 Annual Payment Update (APU) is March 31, 2022.

Medicare-certified home health agencies are eligible for an exemption if they served 59 or fewer survey eligible patients between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021. If your agency is exempt, you do not need to participate in the CAHPS data collection period, which runs from April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022.

To be exempted from participating in the CAHPS Survey for the CY 2023 APU, providers must count the number of home health patients they served between April 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021, who meet CAHPS survey eligibility criteria and then report that count on the Participation Exemption Request Form. Please note that exemptions are active for one year only.