Hospice, Palliative Care & Advance Directive Watch

Track end-of-life care rules and resources in the United States, written for families. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: Medicare and Medicaid hospice eligibility, benefit period, payment and face-to-face rule changes; CMS Care Compare hospice rating releases, inspection findings and immediate jeopardy citations by provider and metro; hospice fraud enforcement, enrollment moratoriums and license actions by state; palliative care coverage and state access law changes; advance directive, POLST, MOLST and health care proxy law and form changes by state with where to get free forms; medical aid in dying law changes by state; home health and hospice provider closures and acquisitions; respite, caregiver support and bereavement benefit changes; FMLA and state bereavement leave rule changes; and free end-of-life planning program openings. Prefer CMS, state health departments and legislatures, court documents, Area Agencies on Aging, NHPCO and established health reporting; ignore provider marketing, report medical aid in dying laws neutrally, and never give individual medical or legal advice. Put the state, program or provider first in the title with what changed. Use high severity for an immediate jeopardy finding or fraud action at a provider serving a metro over 500,000 people, a benefit rule change affecting current patients, or a directive law change. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.