Hospice News December 23, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has made public its first cohort for the hospice Special Focus Program (SFP).
Finalized in the 2024 home health payment rule, the program is designed to identify poor performing hospices, mandate quality improvement and in some cases impose additional penalties. However, stakeholders in the hospice space have contended that the agency’s methodology for selecting hospices for the program is deeply flawed.
For this reason, they have argued that the list of operators should not be made public. Though CMS published the list, it delayed the release of a second that would point to future candidates for the program.
“CMS has also generated a list of future SFP candidates. We are not publishing...
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