The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 18, 2025 announced updates to the calculation of the Hospice Care Index (HCI) Measure following the identification and correction of an issue affecting how the Late Live Discharge and Early Live Discharge indicators were calculated within the measure.

The agency applied the correction to the programming logic used in calculating these indicators to ensure that each hospice’s score reflects only the care it provided to its own patients.

This correction affects a small percentage of hospice providers. Archived data will be updated with the corrected methodology in a future release.