UPDATES TO THE HOSPICE QUALITY REPORTING PROGRAM The FY 2022 Hospice Final Rule includes extremely important information on quality reporting that providers must be familiar with. A. The Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure-HIS-Comprehensive Assessment at Admission measure (HIS Comprehensive Assessment Measure) ▌ CMS is finalizing its proposal to remove the seven individual HIS process measures from public reporting as individual measures on Care Compare no earlier than May 2022. ▌ In addition, CMS will remove the " 7 measures that make up the HIS Comprehensive Assessment Measure " section of Care Compare, which displays the seven HIS measures. ▌ These will be effective no earlier than May 2022. ▌ Hospice providers must report HIS data used for the HIS Comprehensive Assessment Measure in order to meet the requirements for compliance with the HQRP. B. Hospice Care Index (HCI) ▌ CMS has finalized a new hospice quality measure, called the Hospice Care Index (HCI), which is a composite measure that is comprised of ten indicators calculated from Medicare claims data and represents different aspects of hospice service. The sum of the points earned from meeting the criterion of each indicator results in the hospice's aggregated single HCI score, with 10 as the highest hospice score which indicates a broad overview of the quality of hospice care provision. The ten indicators are: * Provided CHC/GIP (% days) * Gaps in skilled nursing visits * Early live discharges * Late live discharges * Burdensome transitions (type 1) * Burdensome transitions (type 2) Newsline / Fall 2021 25