MIPS 457 Percentage of Patients Who Died from Cancer Admitted to Hospice for Less than 3 days (inverse)
2026 measure specification coding updates pending for Practice Insights.
MEASURE DESCRIPTION
Percentage of patients who died from cancer, and admitted to hospice and spent less than 3 days there.
This is an inverse measure, a lower percentage achieves a higher score
Relevance to Value Based Care
Many patients are enrolled in hospice for 3 days or less before their death, which limits the benefit they may gain from these services. Patients enrolled in hospice experience increased survival times along with a reduction in resource use such as aggressive end-of-life care and hospital admissions; benefits that increase the longer patients are enrolled in hospice (Lee, 2015; Langton, 2014).
Numerator
Patients who died from cancer and spent fewer than three days on hospice.
Denominator
Patients who, during the reporting period, had two E/M visits, were admitted to hospice and died from their cancer.
Exclusions/Exceptions
None.
2025 Telehealth included: No Yes
2026 Scoring 1-7 points, 10 points for 0% performance (inverse measure)
