PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting Program
The Social Security Amendments of 1983 exempted classified cancer hospitals from the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). These PPS-exempt cancer hospitals were also exempted from reporting on Hospital Inpatient quality measures. In 2010 the Affordable Care Act required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a specialized quality reporting program for the PPS-exempt cancer hospitals. The resulting PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting (PCHQR) Program measures allow consumers to compare the quality of care given at the eleven PPS-exempt cancer hospitals currently participating in the program.
Under the PCHQR program, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals submit data to CMS on the following measures for public reporting: Cancer-Specific Treatment Measures, Oncology Care Measures, and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey.
PPS-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Data – By Facility
The tables that follows contains hospital (provider) results. You can also visit Data.Medicare.gov- Opens in a new window to download the PCHQR Program- Opens in a new window dataset.
Data reporting periods for the PCHQR measures in this table are as follows:
Cancer-Specific Treatment Measures
| Adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer | |
| Combination chemotherapy for breast cancer | |
| Hormonal therapy for breast cancer |
Oncology Care Measures
| Oncology: Radiation dose limits to normal tissues | January 01, 2015 – December 31, 2015 |
| Oncology: Plan of care for pain | January 01, 2015 – December 31, 2015 |
| Oncology: Pain intensity quantified | January 01, 2015 – December 31, 2015 |
| Prostate Cancer: Adjuvant hormonal therapy for high risk patients | January 01, 2015 – December 31, 2015 |
| Prostate Cancer: Avoidance of overuse of bone scan for staging low risk patients | January 01, 2015 – December 31, 2015 |
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey Data - by facility: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016
Higher numbers are better for all measures.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey Data - by state: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016
Higher numbers are better for all measures.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey Data - national: April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2016
Higher numbers are better for all measures.