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HOPE Tool Chugs Toward Implementation

Published on Fri Aug 04, 2023

Stand by for an update on the assessment tool this fall. Although it’s not officially approved yet, Medicare officials continue to build their hospice quality house on the foundation of the in-progress Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool. “We will use field test results to create a final version of HOPE to propose in future rulemaking for national implemen­tation,” [...]
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