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Medicare Program; FY 2026 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on April 30, 2025. Comments closed on June 10, 2025.
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What the agency says
This proposed rule would update the hospice wage index, payment rates, and aggregate cap amount for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. This rule also proposes changes to the admission to hospice regulations and the hospice face-to-face attestation requirements under the certification of terminal illness regulations. This proposed rule also includes a technical correction to the regulatory text and provides updates to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program requirements. Finally, this proposed rule solicits comments regarding requests for information surrounding future measure concepts for Hospice Quality Reporting Program.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-06317
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- April 30, 2025
- Comments due
- June 10, 2025
- Dates
- To be assured consideration, comments must be received at one of the addresses provided below, June 30, 2025.
- Docket
- CMS-1835-P
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV49
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 418
- Topics
- Health facilities; Medicare; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 20
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