Per the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) Help Desk, an email that recently went out noting that Preview Reports are now available was sent in error. Preview reports will now be released on February 23, 2022, and not on January 12 as the original email indicated. Additional information is provided below.

Preview reports and Star Rating preview reports for the April 2022 refresh will be available on February 23, 2022, in the Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). For this refresh, Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) measure scores are based on the standard number of quarters. The April 2022 refresh will add new OASIS-based measures for public reporting in alignment with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014.

• Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injury
• Application of Percent of Long-Term Care Hospital Patients with an Admission and Discharge Functional Assessment and a Care Plan that Addresses Function

The claims-based quality measures within this preview report remain frozen. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decided to delay the resumption of public reporting for these measures. This delay allows time to analyze the impact of the required comprehensive exclusion of Q1-2020 and Q2-2020 claims data on risk adjustment and reporting.

CMS is targeting the July 2022 refresh of Care Compare for the resumption of home health claims-based measure updates on Care Compare. For additional information, please see the Home Health Quality Reporting Program COVID-19 Public Reporting Tip Sheet in the downloads section of the Home Health Quality Reporting Training webpage and the FY 2022 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Update Final Rule (home health rider).