Issue in Focus: Getting Ready for Hospice Self-Reporting of the Aggregate Cap

The Fiscal Year 2015 Final Hospice Payment Rule directs that, beginning with cap year 2014 each hospice must self-calculate and report its aggregate cap (along with any applicable overpayment) by not later than 5 months following the close of the cap year (March 31).  Further, the self-calculation may not be completed earlier than 90 days…