CMS to Pilot Test Family Experience of Care Survey – Requests Comment on Data Collection Burden and Other Issues

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a hospice experience of care survey to be field-tested in 2013.  The survey will include 730 bereaved family members or close friends of hospice patients who died while in hospice care at home, in nursing homes, or in inpatient settings, including acute care hospitals and…