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Long Time-Coming HOPE Tool Nearly Cleared For Takeoff

Published on Fri Apr 05, 2024

What’s the rush? After years of talking about it, hospices may soon be filling out the HOPE patient assessment tool — and it could be a game-changer. Background: After the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented the OASIS tool for home health patients in 1999, discussion of a similar hospice patient assessment tool began. In 2017, CMS convened a [...]
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