Hospice and palliative care: regulatory and accreditation changes
This page collects dated changes on hospice and palliative care: Federal Register rules and corrections, CMS memos and newsletter items, and accreditor news. Each entry quotes or reports one sentence from the authority's page, links to it, and adds the effective date or comment deadline when the source states one. Entries from accreditors whose terms limit reuse show title, date and link only. IHS prepares hospice and palliative programs for ACHC and CARF review and drafts the policies and records those surveys test, so these updates are part of the record IHS reads each day. A quote here is the authority's wording, not IHS's reading of it. The entries do not interpret the changes, and the linked source is the original wording.
Related IHS services: ACHC Hospice Accreditation Consulting
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS issued transmittal R13976CP (Change Request 14557), "Update to Hospice Payment Rates, Hospice Cap, Hospice Wage Index and Hospice Pricer for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027", on September 30, 2026, with an implementation date of 2026-10-05.
Related IHS services: ACHC Hospice Accreditation Consulting
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services states: “This document corrects technical errors in the final rule that appeared in the August 3, 2026 Federal Register titled "Medicare Program; FY 2027 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements".”
Related IHS services: ACHC Hospice Accreditation Consulting
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