Hospice Regulatory Update 2025

{"title":"Hospice Regulatory Update 2025","authors":"Edward Martin MD MPH","doi":"10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2025.02.071","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Outcomes</h3><div>1. Identify the changes proposed for the Hospice Medicare Benefit in pending legislation.</div><div>2. Describe the potential barriers to access to Hospice that could be an unintended consequence of this legislation.</div></div><div><h3>Key Message</h3><div>The past year has seen the development of the first legislation to reform the Hospice Medicare Benefit. This creates enormous opportunity and challenges for Hospice and this presentation will review the details and outline the Academy response to the proposed legislation. The presentation will also address other regulatory developments.</div></div><div><h3>Abstract</h3><div>The past year has seen the development of the first legislation to reform the Hospice Medicare Benefit. This creates enormous opportunity and challenges for hospice. The legislation was developed in response to concerns about fraud in hospice and the goal was to improve Hospice integrity. While this is a laudable goal, as proposed, this legislation could significantly impact access to hospice. Other parts of the proposal seek to provide support for concurrent care and room and board coverage for terminally ill patients who seek to receive hospice services in a long-term care setting as opposed to having to receive skilled care to have that support. in addition to this important legislation the session will also review other developments in the ongoing regulatory burden and scrutiny that Hospices continue to face.</div></div><div><h3>References</h3><div>G:\\P\\18\\H\\CMS\\MEDCR\\WMD\\HOSPICE-PKGE-MAY_01.XML Draft legislation</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16634,"journal":{"name":"Journal of pain and symptom management","volume":"69 5","pages":"Page e455"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of pain and symptom management","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885392425001319","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CLINICAL NEUROLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}