Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
HOPE Testing Recruitment Ongoing
Published on Thu Aug 18, 2022
Your chance to help out with HOPE tool testing asn’t passed you by. “Recruitment is ongoing,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says of its beta testing of the draft hospice patient assessment instrument, the Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation (HOPE). HOPE data collection is scheduled to begin this month. More information is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/Hospice-Quality-Reporting/Hospice-QRP-Provider-Engagement-Opportunities.
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