HOPE Data Specs (FINAL) Effective October 1, 2025

The Situation Report | April 28, 2025

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently made available the final Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation (HOPE) data submission specifications (V1.00.1) in the “Downloads” section of the CMS HOPE Technical Specifications website.

This final version of the specifications will go into effect on October 1, 2025. Some significant changes since the draft version include the following:

1. A0810 (Sex) replaces the A0800 item;

2. New warning edit -3110, which includes the HUV timing rules; and

3. New edit -3111, which addresses the handling of item Z0350 for inactivation records.

HCANYS hospice members are encouraged to review the Item Change and Edit Change reports to see all the revisions.

This version of the data specifications consists of the following files:

HOPE data specs overview (v1.00.1) FINAL 04-05-2025.pdf

HOPE data specs CSV files (v1.00.1) FINAL 04-05-2025.zip

HOPE data specs HTML files (v1.00.1) FINAL 04-05-2025.zip
HOPE data specs PDF files (v1.00.1) FINAL 04-05-2025.zip

These files are contained in a single ZIP file named "HOPE Data Specs (v1.00.1) FINAL 04-05-2025.zip," are also available in the Downloads section of the CMS HOPE Technical Specifications website referenced above.