Hospice News July 29, 2021
The U.S Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has released its final rule for hospice payments in Fiscal Year 2022. Major provisions include a payment rebasing, along with updates to the hospice conditions of participation (CoPs) and new quality measures.
Hospices will see a 2.0% jump in their payments for FY 2022 relative to FY 2021, a result of the 2.7% market basket increase (reduced by a 0.7% point productivity adjustment). The agency also raised the hospice payment cap to $31,297.61, up from the FY 2021 amount of $30,683.93.
The final rule did not make permanent the temporary measure introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow hospices to recertify patients via telehealth rather than a face-to-face encounter.
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