Home Health & Hospice Week

Surveys & Certification:

Take It Slow With Survey Special Focus Program, Hospices Tell CMS

SFP quotas are a bad idea, multiple commenters say. A Special Focus Program targeting “poor performing” hospices is on its way, but the feds have a lot of leeway in how to implement it. In comments on the 2023 proposed hospice rule, providers and their representatives are appealing to Medicare officials’ better nature when it comes to crafting the program. [...]
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