Advocacy
Protect Patients. Fix the Hospice SFP.
Time is running out to fix the Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP). Will you help us protect patients, families, and providers? The Hospice SFP’s Problems • Overdue Surveys: 3 in 10 hospices eligible for the SFP are 3-6 years overdue for surveys.• Rewarding Withholding Information: SFP scoring uses quality data but gives average scores to hospices that […]
Read MoreWe Need You: Act to Fix the Hospice SFP
The Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) will fail patients and providers by using bad data to rank hospice provider performance. Currently, the SFP will only benefit poor performers who will go undetected. But there is a path forward. The bipartisan Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act (H.R. 10097) will delay the SFP and allow CMS time to fix the […]
Read MoreThe Hospice SFP Can Be Fixed. Will You Help?
The Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) will publicly rank hospice providers’ performance using flawed methods. This threatens to misinform patients and families when they are making critical end-of-life care decisions. This will only benefit bad actors who will go undetected. But there is a solution. The bipartisan Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act (H.R. 10097) will delay […]
Read MoreDr. Landers Leads Alliance Advocacy on Home Health Cuts, Hospice SFP
The National Alliance for Care at Home is focused like a laser on the two big advocacy priorities — the looming payment cuts to home health care and the Medicare hospice Special Focus Program (SFP) — Alliance CEO Dr. Steven Landers told a gathering of journalists in a media briefing on November 21, 2024. “The […]
Read MoreThe Alliance Applauds Gerald’s Law Passing Through Congress
The Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act moves closer to becoming law (Washington, DC) – The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) celebrates the historic passage of H.R. 8371, the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act in the U.S. House of Representatives last […]
Read MoreAct Now to Protect Hospice Patients
Soon, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP), which is based on flawed data that will misinform patients and families with inaccurate hospice performance rankings. The bipartisan Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act [H.R. 10097] will delay the SFP and allow CMS time to fix the program, preventing great harm […]
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