Tag: Hospital to Hospice Transfer

Proposed CMS Transfer Policy from Hospitals to Hospice Has Problems

The National Association of Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has written a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, objecting to the proposed mechanism of the CMS plan to impose its post-acute transfer policy to hospice, beginning October 1, 2018. As a quick reminder, under the post-acute transfer policy, certain…

FY2019 Hospital Rule Sheds Light on CMS’ Plans for “Transfers” to Hospice from Hospital Setting, Helps Forecast Hospice Payment Update

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) has been monitoring release of two Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 payment rules that have implications for hospice programs – the FY2019 Hospice Payment Rule — because it is expected to provide, among other items, estimates of hospice payment rates for the coming year, as well as…