Hospice:
Survey Consistency Can’t Come Soon Enough
Published on Fri Oct 29, 2021
‘A deficiency in Texas should be the same as a deficiency in Maine,’ hospice rep tells CMS. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 enacted a host of sweeping hospice survey reforms, including burdensome new additions like a Special Focus Program for poor performing hospices and enforcement remedies including payment suspension. But hospices are actually looking forward to one change — [...]