Transcription of HCAHPS Fact Sheet
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Originally Posted: 03/01/20211 HCAHPS Fact Sheet (CAHPS Hospital Survey) March 2021 Overview The HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) Survey is the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care. HCAHPS (pronounced H-caps ), also known as the CAHPS Hospital Survey*, is a 29-item survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients perceptions of their hospital experience. While hospitals collected information on patient satisfaction for their own internal use prior to HCAHPS , until HCAHPS there were no common metrics and no national standards for collecting and publicly reporting information about patient experience of care.
Mar 01, 2021 · Affordable Care Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-148), which specifically included HCAHPS performance in the calculation of the value-based incentive payment in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program beginning with October 2012 discharges. Veterans Administration hospitals began to participate in HCAHPS in 2017 and Department of Defense hospitals in ...
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