Medicare hospice HOPE assessment implementation
CMS moved Medicare hospice quality reporting from the Hospice Item Set to the HOPE patient assessment workflow for relevant admissions, update visits, and discharges.
Federal · Implementing · Implementation Oct 1, 2025
What it is
- What changed
- CMS moved Medicare hospice quality reporting from HIS to the HOPE patient assessment workflow for relevant hospice admissions, update visits, and discharges.
- Why it matters
- Hospices now have new documentation and submission workflows that may affect care-plan timing, quality reporting, and administrative load around hospice care.
- Who it touches
- Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving careMedicare hospice patients, family caregivers, hospice providers
- What it does
- Requires something of providers, companies or agencies
Sources
Last reviewed Jun 18, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.