Survey and Certification Data Reporting:
CASPER and PDQ
AHFSA 2014
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Survey and Certification Data in
QIES
What is available?
Where is it?
How do I get it?
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What Is Available?
Management and Oversight Data
Certification Survey Outcomes
Assessment (Clinical) Data
Complaint and Incident Data
Enforcement Data
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Where Is It?
 ASPEN
Your state’s data
 QIES National
National Data
• Data that has not been successfully uploaded
from ASPEN is not on national
Used in CASPER, QW, and PDQ reports
Used to populate Compare websites
Used to evaluate state performance standards
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How Do I Get It?
 ASPEN Reporting
Numerous Standard reports
Ad Hoc reports – Custom state reports
 QIES National Reports
CASPER – Standard reporting tool
QW – Ad Hoc reporting tool
PDQ – Standard data tool for interactive
managerial reporting (Note: PDQ has a
separate UserID and PW)
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ASPEN DATA – WHERE IT
ALL STARTS
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ASPEN-Platform Context
ASPEN
Facility Demographics
Certification
ACO
ASPEN
Web
CLIA Lab
processes
CLIA
Enforcement
process
AEM
Plan of
s
Correction
ePOC
Complaints &
Incidents
Management
CMPTS
ACTS
AO/Deeming
process
Survey Mobile
platform
ASE-Q
(ASPEN Survey
Explorer-Quality)
ASSURE
Scheduling
AST
FMS
STAR
ESRD
focus
survey
NH
focus
survey
QIS
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ASPEN Architecture
QIES/ASPEN
Functional
Architecture
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ASPEN Reports
Operations & Management focused reports
Available via ASPEN’s Reports menu
Based on real-time data in your state’s
database
Includes information not yet qualified for
upload to national
Logical selection and sorting criteria
State-customized filters i.e. Field
Office/Team
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ASPEN Reports
Users can store, share and re-use report
criteria
May save output as PDF, Excel and other
standard formats
Covered in ASPEN Procedures Guides and
ASPEN Technical Training Materials
This afternoon’s sessions will go into
detail on ASPEN reports
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NATIONAL REPORTING DATA
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ASPEN National Reports Data Delivery
CASPER
QW
National
Delivers
Any data,
any time
Reporting
ASPEN Transaction Engine
Data Qualification Rules &
Automatic Upload Processing
ASPEN
State and CMS S&C Operations Systems
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ASPEN 10.1.7 Auto Upload
ASPEN 10.1.7 includes a new auto upload
for certification and complaint
investigations
Certification kits with a create date of 7/1/2014
or later
• CLIA, FMS & CMPTS exception – after 1st
successful upload
Investigations with an exit date of 7/1/2014 or
later
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QIES National Reports
QIES National Reporting is accessed from the QIES to Success website
at https://web.qiesnet.org/qiestosuccess
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CASPER
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Web-based National Reporting tool
Provides hundreds of pre-defined reports
CASPER reports are grouped into 30+ categories
Each report has relevant query and sort criteria
Users have the option of saving the report criteria
selections to their CASPER “MY Library” page
 Report can be PDF, CVS or Excel
 CASPER Reporting User’s Guide is available on QIES
to Success
Select Training and Education in the QIES
Infocenter section
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CASPER (continued)
 CASPER Data is refreshed as follows:
Survey and Certification – Nightly
Assessment and Submission – Hourly
OBQI/OBQM – Monthly
MDS QI/QM – Weekly
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For CASPER Reports Users Guide
select Training and Education from
the QIES to Success Main page.
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Choose the Section from the drop down list.
Performance Standard Reports are Section 16.
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QIES Workbench (QW)
 Browser-based ad hoc query tool
 Designed for ad hoc customized reporting
 Selectively retrieve and format data from the QIES
National Database
 Two Main Types of Data:
Provider and Survey and Certification Data
MDS, OASIS, IRF-PAI, LTCH and Swing Bed
assessment data
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QW (continued)
Three Output Types
Extracts, Detail Reports & Summary Reports. Detail and summary
reports display data in PDF files suitable for printing.
 Extracts create data output in fixed width, comma-delimited or
tab-delimited text files suitable for export to Microsoft Excel or
other data manipulation applications.
 Detail reports display data at the record level, with a row for each
record of data.
 Summary reports analyze data at a higher level; providing counts,
averages, totals. Etc.
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QW training materials available on www.qtso.com state page:
https://www.qtso.com/state/state.php
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CASPER, QW, and PDQ
Compared
CASPER
 Generate standard reports
QW
 Generate Ad-Hoc or regularly-scheduled reports
 Extract to a file (e.g. Excel) for analysis or distribution
 Release data authorized by a Data Use Agreement (DUA)
PDQ
 Generate Management-Level Summary Reports of Trends
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CMS’ Providing Data Quickly
- Providing Data Quickly ‘PDQ’
- https://pdq.cms.hhs.gov
- Survey & Certification
Management Reporting System
Quality Indicator Survey
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CMS’ Providing Data Quickly
- Fueled by CASPER DATA
- Refreshed Weekly
- Designed to be
- User Friendly
- Easy to Use
- Responsive
Quality Indicator Survey
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CMS’ Providing Data Quickly
Very Handy for
- Trend Analysis
- SA comparison
- Performance monitoring
- Outcomes analysis
Quality Indicator Survey
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CMS’ Providing Data Quickly
Not so Handy for
- Survey process analysis
- individual case/survey review
Quality Indicator Survey
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PDQ – Main Page
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Survey Activity Report
Selection Criteria
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Survey Activity Report
Results Screen
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Survey Activity FY2014
Drill Down to States
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Survey Activity Report
Selection Criteria
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Survey Activity Report
Results Screen
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Survey Activity FY2014
Scope & Severity – J and Greater
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Providers & Supplies Reports
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Workload Report
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Workload Report
Selection Criteria
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Workload FY2014
Citation Frequency Report
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Citation Frequency Report
Selection Criteria
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Citation Frequency FY2014
Top 25
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