Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Modifies SOM for Hospice

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) last week released Transmittal 73, which pertains to hospices. This transmittal does not include any substantive language changes. Rather, it updates “hospice” sections of Chapter 2 of the State Operations Manual (SOM) to consistently cite references in the Code of Federal Regulations and delete those sections that…