Hospice PEPPER Report Updates 2022

The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is released each year in April. The Hospice PEPPER report can play an important part in shaping your internal compliance program. In a year of increased scrutiny across post-acute settings, accessing and understanding your PEPPER report can not only help you compare your organization to others but also help you identify risks and vulnerabilities to address now and avoid an audit problem later.

Watch this on-demand session to hear Carrie Cooley, RN, MSN, Principal of Weatherbee Resources, review the PEPPER 2021 report, explore key insights and how to review/analyze the report, and discuss how the PEPPER Report can be used to mitigate payment-related scrutiny risk.

Learning objectives:

• Review the PEPPER 2021 Report’s key elements
• Discuss how to read and analyze PEPPER findings for your hospice organization
• Understand how to leverage the PEPPER Report to mitigate payment-related scrutiny