What’s New? CMS Provisional Period of Enhanced Oversight Application to “New” Hospices

Since July 13, 2023, CMS has applied a Provisional Period of Enhanced Oversight (PPEO) to “new” hospice providers in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas. On December 30, 2025, CMS announced it was expanding PPEO to Georgia and Ohio. In this episode, Husch Blackwell attorneys Bryan Nowicki and Adam Royal discuss how these changes impact new (and not-so-new) hospice providers.