Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure Fact Sheet + Hospice Item Set Manual Update

• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted a Fact Sheet for the Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Quality measure. The document provides clarification on the measure and guidance on how to calculate the Hospice Comprehensive Assessment Measure for your hospice as well as FAQs for the measure. The Comprehensive Assessment quality measure captures whether seven key care processes were conducted upon a patients’ admission to hospice and was first publicly reported on Care Compare in 2018.

• The Hospice Item Set (HIS) Manual has been updated to remove COVID-19 public health emergency references, revise the Annual Payment Update (APU) penalty to reflect the current four percent (4%), revise the terminology related to the Consensus Based Entity (CBE) and make some date changes.

A Change Table outlining all the revisions is available here.

No changes are necessary for hospice operations relative to the HIS.