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HOPE Tool Beta Testing Starts New Round This Month

Published on Fri Jul 01, 2022

There’s still time to pilot the HOPE tool before it becomes mandatory. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation tool contractor, Abt Associates, is “recruiting additional Medicare-certified hospice providers to participate in a beta test of the draft hospice patient assessment instrument,” CMS says on its HOPE webpage. “Recruitment will continue until the desired number [...]
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