Hospice Cap Year Begins Shift to Federal Fiscal Year

As part of the FY2016 hospice payment rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a plan to align the Hospice Cap Year with the federal fiscal year, which is also the hospice payment year (October 1 through September 30).  As a result, beginning with the 2017 Cap year, the timeframe for computing…