Hospice News
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented telehealth recertifications on an emergency basis during the pandemic. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has given no indication that it would do so. Since then, expiration dates for that flexibility have been extended several times.
Hospice News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
If enacted, the Enhancing Hospice Oversight and Transparency Act also would increase the penalty for hospices that do not report quality measure data to 10% by 2027, up from 4% currently. The SFP has the authority to impose enforcement remedies against hospices with poor performance based on its algorithm.
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Hospice News
MAY 30, 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center is overhauling its Kidney Care Choices (KCC) payment model. Sunsetting the model in 2027 versus its initial expiration in 2026 will allow the agency to address early concerns about spending and implement quality improvements, according to CMS.
Hospice News
JULY 12, 2024
The bill would also implement a temporary, national moratorium on the enrollment of new hospices into Medicare, to help stem the tide of fraudulent activities among recently established providers concentrated primarily in California, Arizona, Texas and Nevada. Hospice News / Merz Photography Hospice News / Merz Photography Rep.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 1, 2022
1, 2021, and was slated to end either 365 days following associated reports from the California State Auditor, or when the provisions of last year’s new law expire in 2027. The halt on licensing took effect Jan. Medi-Cal is the state’s Medicaid program. Last week, a group of hospice industry organizations wrote to U.S.
Hospice News
AUGUST 1, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish an hourly rate for short-term home respite care starting in fiscal year 2027. These care days would would also count toward the hospice’s payment cap. It would also require the U.S.
NHPCO
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
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 high risk of failing to identify poor performing hospices that should be subject to increased oversight.
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