Hospice Care Index Technical Report
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Description
Provides an overview of the Hospice Care Index (HCI), a new Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) quality measure. Presents data and descriptive trends for the overall index score and each of the ten claims-based indicators that make up the HCI using Medicare claims data from fiscal years 2019-2021. Includes comparisons of hospices by the number of claims, decade of certification, ownership, facility type, region, and urban/rural location.
Date
07/2022
Type
Document
Organizations
Abt Associates, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tagged as
Healthcare quality · Hospice and palliative care · Medicare · Policy · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data