Hospice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary health care to terminally ill patients, as well as bereavement and support services to the patients’ loved ones. Patients receiving hospice care forgo curative treatments. Hospice care is provided through certified hospice programs, and may be delivered in any patient care setting, but is most often provided in the patient's home.
CHA provides state and federal representation and advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas to improve access to quality, cost-effective hospice health care services.
Hospice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary health care
to terminally ill patients, as well as bereavement and support
services to the patients’ loved ones. Patients receiving hospice
care forgo curative treatments. Hospice care is provided through
certified hospice programs, and may be delivered in any patient
care setting, but is most often provided in the patient’s home.
CHA provides state and federal representation and advocacy in the
legislative and regulatory arenas to improve access to quality,
cost-effective hospice health care services.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued
All
facilities letter (AFL) 20-47.1, which provides updated
information about the temporary suspension of regulatory
enforcement of hospice requirement during the public health
emergency. The current AFL rescinds prior authorization to
begin operations based solely on submission of an application and
clarifies that a hospice provider seeking initial licensure must
receive approval before providing care.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an
update to the Nursing
Home Compare and the Five Star Quality Rating Program. During
the COVID-19 public health emergency, required reporting of
certain skilled-nursing facility staffing data and quality
measures were waived.
Effective Dec. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) will retire eight original health care
compare tools, completing the transition to the streamlined
Care Compare website.