The FY 2027 hospice proposed rule posted to the Federal Register preview page a few moments ago. The Alliance team is currently reviewing the rule and will provide a summary soon. Until then, the summary from the posting is below.
This proposed rule would update the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. The proposed hospice payment update percentage is 2.4%. This proposed rule also includes an analysis of Medicare non-hospice spending, including details regarding a hospice service and spending variation index (SSVI), and proposes to require that hospices provide the hospice election statement addendum to all Medicare beneficiaries at the time of hospice election. Additionally, this rule proposes conforming regulation text changes to discharge from hospice care regulations; regulation text changes to the face-to-face encounter regulations; and includes requests for information on community palliative care services; the construction of a hospice specific wage index; and the overlap between hospice and medical aid in dying (MAID). Finally, this rule proposes changes to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
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Katie Wehri
Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Quality & Compliance
National Alliance for Care at Home
Washington DC
+1 (202) 547-7424
kwehri@allianceforcareathome.org------------------------------