CMS Care Compare August 2022 Data Refresh

From NHPCO

[August 31, 2022], publicly reported hospice quality data was refreshed on the CMS website Care Compare. The following measures are posted:

• Hospice CAHPS® Star Ratings for all hospices with 75 or more completed CAHPS surveys over the eight-quarter reporting period.
• Hospice Care Index (HCI) which captures data from ten individual indicators and is presented as a single claims-based measure.
• Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life (HVLDL) which measures the proportion of hospice patients who received in-person visits from a registered nurse or a medical social worker on at least two of the final three days of life.
• Hospice Item Set (HIS) Comprehensive Assessment Measure at Admission which captures, in one measure, the proportion of patients for whom the hospice performed seven care processes upon admission to hospice.