Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Check In On Your Hopes For HOPE Tool
Published on Fri Aug 30, 2019
Get the latest update about the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE) tool in a special Open Door Forum call on Sept. 12. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will include a status update on the patient assessment tool and will answer questions in the call, it says. Contractor Abt Associates is conducting a series of eight virtual focus groups about the tool in August and September. Information about the still-evolving tool is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/HOPE.html. Dial in information for the forum call is at www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/OpenDoorForums/ODFSpecialODF.html.
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