Hospice Compliance Academy

Ready when the surveyor knocks.

Cut through the acronyms. Learn what CMS actually requires, why it matters at the bedside, and how to prepare your team — from HOPE tool timing to survey-day playbooks — without inventing rules or over-promising.

What you’ll learn

Topic 1

HOPE Tool — What & When

The Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation tool: purpose, timing windows, and how to build it into visit workflow.

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Topic 2

HQRP & iQIES

Hospice Quality Reporting Program: what gets measured, how iQIES scores it, and how to read your CASPER reports.

Topic 3

CAHPS Hospice Survey

What family caregivers are asked, which scores drive the star rating, and how to move them.

Topic 4

Medicare Conditions of Participation

A working-tour of the CoPs every hospice team member should know cold.

Topic 5

Survey Readiness

The mock-survey routine, chart-audit habits, and staff coaching that makes an unannounced visit a non-event.

Topic 6

ADR & TPE Response

How to respond to Additional Documentation Requests and Targeted Probe & Educate audits without panicking.

Topic 7

Face-to-Face & Recertification

Timing, documentation, and why F2F narrative is the #1 audit trigger to get right.

Topic 8

Election Statements & Notices

NOE, election, addendum, and the discharge/revocation paperwork done properly.

Topic 9

QAPI in Practice

Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement — not a binder, an operating rhythm.

Content grounded in authoritative sources

CMS.gov (HOPE, HQRP, iQIES)42 CFR §418 (Hospice CoPs)MLN MattersMedicare Benefit Policy Manual Ch. 9MAC (Palmetto/CGS/Noridian) LCDs

Educational content only. Not a substitute for your organization’s policies, your medical director’s clinical judgment, or current CMS guidance. See individual pages for author/reviewer bylines and last-reviewed dates.

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