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Is Your Agency Ready for the HOPE Assessment Tool?
The CMS HOPE (Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation) Assessment Tool is almost here! Beginning October 1, 2025, HOPE will replace the Hospice Item...
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Hospice Compliance in 2025: 5 Challenges Every Provider Must Navigate
Hospice care is meant to offer comfort, dignity, and quality of life for terminally ill Medicare beneficiaries and their families. But while most...
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Proven Strategies for Excelling in Surveys and Inspections
Every healthcare organization will face a survey or be selected for an audit. It’s not a matter of if, but when. Yet far too many organizations rely...
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Webinar Recording: Patient Safety is Everyone's Responsibility - Comprehensive Medication Management in Hospice Care
In recognition of National Patient Safety Awareness Week, this expert-led panel discussion brings together leaders from CHAP, QAPIplus, and BetterRX...
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Achieving CMS Survey Readiness: Training and Transparency
With CMS intensifying its oversight on hospice and home health organizations, adapting to a proactive compliance posture is essential. There are no...
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Achieving CMS Survey Readiness: Centralize and Standardize Programs
With CMS intensifying its oversight on hospice and home health organizations, adapting to a proactive compliance posture is essential. There are no...
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Achieving CMS Survey Readiness: Data-Driven Performance Improvement
With CMS intensifying its oversight on hospice and home health organizations, adapting to a proactive compliance posture is essential. There are no...
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Achieving CMS Survey Readiness: Documentation
With CMS intensifying its oversight on hospice and home health organizations, adapting to a proactive compliance posture is essential. There are no...
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Achieving CMS Survey Readiness: Efficient Data Collection
With CMS intensifying its oversight on hospice and home health organizations, adapting to a proactive compliance posture is essential. There are no...
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How to Survive the CMS Hospice Special Focus Program in 2024
In 2024 CMS increased direct oversight of hospice organizations. CMS has created a series of methodologies to identify hospices as poor performers,...