CMS Issues Hospice Interpretive Guidance, Updates to Chapter 2 of State Operations Manual

On Oct. 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted on its website revisions to the State Operations Manual Chapter 2, “The Certification Process,” in Sections 2080-2089, “Hospices,” and Appendix M, “Guidance to Surveyors, Hospices.” These changes reflect modifications to the Hospice Conditions of Participation that were issued in June 2008 (NAHC Report,…