Hospice News June 1, 2022
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Hospice Care Index (HCI) to paint a picture of care processes that occur between a patient’s admission and discharge, but as currently designed it may not be an effective measure of quality.
Payers and referral partners are paying closer attention to hospices’ performance on publicly reported quality measures, which as of Fiscal Year 2022 includes the HCI. Each provider receives a single numerical score ranging from zero to 10, based on a set of quality indicators.
But some stakeholders have called those thresholds into question, arguing that the differentiation among hospices are insufficient for a well-founded comparison, according to Carter Bakkum, senior data analyst for health care insights at...
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