Posted April 26, 2023
Last week, CMS announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making ownership data for all Medicare-certified home health and hospice agencies publicly available.
Anyone can now review “detailed information on the ownership of more than 6,000 hospices and 11,000 home health agencies,” according to CMS. HHS is doing so in the name of “promoting competition” and “protecting consumers.”
“It’s plain and simple: families deserve transparency when making decisions about hospice and home health care for their loved ones,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “President Biden has called for unprecedented action to increase transparency – and we are making more data publicly available than ever before. Shining a light on ownership data is good for families, good for researchers, and good for enforcement agencies.”
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