Hospice 2017 PEPPER Released

On Monday, April 17, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), via the TMF Health Quality Institute, issued the Q4FY16 release of the Hospice Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), summarizing statistics for fiscal years 2014, 2015, and 2016 (containing statistics through September 2016).  Since its release, 32% of Medicare-certified hospice…