Home Health & Hospice Week

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SFP Burdened With A Plethora Of Flaws, Providers Warn CMS

From CAHPS issues to surveyor shortfalls, serious faults dog the program — and could close hospices’ doors. From CAHPS data to surveyor inconsistencies to fraud confusion, Medicare’s proposed Special Focus Program for applying more scrutiny to poor-performing hospices will do more harm than good if adopted as proposed. So say many of the 900 commenters on the 2024 home health [...]
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