CMS Announces Pilot Program To Track Patient Satisfaction in CHIP Providers
CMS in December 2014 announced that it will pilot a reporting process that uses a pediatric version of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey to track Children's Health Insurance Program participants' satisfaction in hospitals. In the notice, CMS said that it plans to pilot the pediatric HCAHPS survey in 2015 to assess whether to add the results in the core quality measures used by state Medicaid and CHIP programs.
- "CMS May Use New Child HCAHPS To Adjust Medicaid Hospital Pay" (Dickson, Modern Healthcare, 1/8).