Nationwide Quality of Hospice Care: Findings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP)

With increasing use of the Medicare hospice benefit, policymakers recognize the need for quality measurement to assure that terminally ill patients receive high quality care and have the information they need when selecting a hospice. Towards these goals, CMS has been collecting standardized patient-level quality data via the Hospice Item Set (HIS) since July 1, 2014.

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