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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is granting extraordinary circumstances exceptions under certain Medicare quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs to hospitals, skilled-nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, renal dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and Merit Based Incentive Payment System eligible clinicians, located in areas affected by the California wildfires.
Providers and suppliers will be granted exceptions if they are in the following counties, which have been designated as emergency disaster areas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency: Butte, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.
For more information, visit the program-specific web pages:
- Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (QRP)
- Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
- Hospital Acquired-Condition Reduction Program
- Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program
- Hospital Outpatient QRP
- Home Health QRP
- Hospice QRP
- IRF QRP
- LTCH QRP
- SNF QRP
- SNF Value-Based Purchasing Program
- ASC QRP
- IPF QRP
- End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program
- Merit Based Incentive Payment System
