Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Last Round Of Testing For HOPE Assessment Tool Is On The Calendar

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to start beta testing of the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation assessment tool this October. The beta test is “the final testing phase to confirm HOPE assessment item reliability and validity,” CMS says in an announcement recruiting hospices to perform the testing. CMS plans to include about 34 Medicare-certified hospice providers, [...]
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