Hospice
CMS Hospice Quality Reporting Program Forum
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar on Thursday, December 12th, from 1:00 – 2:00 P.M. ET to share an Introduction to Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE). Subject matter experts will also answer questions at the end of the webinar, as time permits. Webinar Details If you want to […]
Read MoreTomorrow! Navigating the Hospice Special Focus Program: Preparing for Survey Deficiencies and Substantiated Complaints
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) prepares to launch the Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP), now is the time to focus on key indicators that could place a hospice in the bottom ten percent of hospices nationwide. The SFP targets hospices in the bottom 10 percent based on hospice survey, Hospice Care […]
Read MoreCMS Issues Hospice Survey Guidance to Identify Quality of Care and Potential Fraud Concerns
On November 13, CMS issued a memo titled “Ensuring Consistency in the Hospice Survey Process,” which reinforces hospice survey protocols to detect quality of care issues and identify potential fraud. While the primary purpose of the Medicare hospice survey is to determine compliance with the Medicare Hospice Conditions of Participation (CoPs), CMS highlights several elements […]
Read MoreProvider Preview Reports Available for February 2025 Care Compare Refresh
Hospice Provider preview reports for the February 2025 Care Compare refresh are now available in the Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) application. The preview period for this Provider Preview Report is from November 13, 2024 to December 13, 2024. Hospice quality data included in the Reports include Hospice Item Set, CAHPS® Survey Family […]
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 […]
Read MoreHospice Researchers Seek to Untangle Possible Relationships Between Tax Status and Outcomes
Read MoreNavigating the Hospice Special Focus Program: Preparing for Survey Deficiencies and Substantiated Complaints
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) prepares to launch the Hospice Special Focus Program (SFP), now is the time to focus on key indicators that could place a hospice in the bottom ten percent of hospices nationwide. The SFP targets hospices in the bottom 10 percent based on hospice survey, Hospice Care […]
Read MoreCMS Open Door Forum Summary: Hospice
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted the Home Health, Hospice, and DME Open Door Forum call on November 7, 2024 and covered several topics related to hospice providers. Below is a summary of the hospice portion of the open door forum. On Friday, November 8, we published the home health portions of […]
Read MoreThe Alliance Supports Legislation to Fix Hospice Special Focus Program
The National Alliance for Care at Home (the Alliance) has endorsed H.R. 10097, the Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act, introduced in the House of Representatives. The Alliance supports delaying the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s (CMS) hospice Special Focus Program (SFP), to allow for additional time to correct its flawed design that creates a […]
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