Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved without change
07/11/2023
03/31/2023
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/2026
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2023
1,149,975
0
1,294,820
420,576
0
453,239
0
0
0
As part of the DHHS Transparency Initiative on Quality Reporting, CMS plans to implement a process to measure and publicly report patients' experiences with home health care they receive from Medicare-certified home health agencies through the data collection effort described in this request: the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Home Health Care Survey. The Home Health Care CAHPS Survey, which was developed and tested by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and is part of the family of CAHPS surveys, is a standardized survey for home health patients to assess their home health care providers and the quality of the home health care they receive. Prior to the Home Health Care CAHPS survey, there was no national standard for collecting data about home health care patients' experience with their home health care. This is a revision to the original PRA package which covered the voluntary implementation of the survey among Medicare-certified agencies and a randomized mode experiment to test the impact of different modes of data collection on survey responses.
This is a revised PRA package because it now includes the burden to the home health agencies (HHAs) to contract with an approved HHCAHPS survey vendor to administer the HHCAHPS survey on their behalf.
US Code:
42 USC 301
Name of Law: US Public Health Service Act
CMS anticipates have a slightly smaller number of respondents to HHCAHPS than we had for the CY 2021 APU period. The number of participating HHAs varies from year to year which carries over to the number of completed surveys. In this iteration we are adjusting the number of HHAs based on April 2021 â March 2022 data. For the CY 2023 APU Participation period, the average number of patients completing the survey by agency was 118 patients (1,043,447 total survey completes divided by 8,819 home health agencies).
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Participation Exemption Request (PER) Form