MIPS 457 Percentage of Patients Who Died from Cancer Admitted to Hospice for Less than 3 days (inverse)
2026 measure specification review pending.
Practice Insights coding changes completed for 2025
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
2026 Scoring 1-7 points, 10 points for 0% performance (inverse measure)
