2025 first_quarter Filing

Issues related to health care workforce shortages. Monitored issues regarding palliative care and hospice education and training.

Issues concerning access to and reimbursement for the Medicare Hospice benefit. Medicare Advantage and the hospice benefit. The Hospice Special Focus Program. Issues regarding program integrity. Issues regarding telehealth and hospice care. Issues related to regulatory relief.
H.R. 1968 (P.L. 119-4), Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025, as it relates to hospice face to face telehealth recertification.

Monitored access to hospice services for Veterans.