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Title
Hospice Care: Safeguards for Medicare Patients
Date
2020-01-30
In a two-part report series, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) focused on hospice:
- Quality of care and common deficiencies
- Instances of beneficiary harm and vulnerabilities
CMS released the Safeguards for Medicare Patients in Hospice Care (PDF) Fact Sheet to help you recognize and address deficiencies in care and protect your patients from harm. Additional resources:
- Hospice Deficiencies Pose Risks to Medicare Beneficiaries OIG Report
- Safeguards Must Be Strengthened To Protect Medicare Hospice Patients From Harm OIG Report
- Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 11 (PDF), Section 30.1
- Eldercare Locator website
- Contact Information For Filing a Complaint with the State Survey Agency (PDF) (DOCX)