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Healthcare Facilities & Managed Care "CMS Announces 6-Month Moratoria fo..."

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13 May 2026ab

Healthcare Facilities & Managed Care Equities

AmericasCMS Announces 6-Month Moratoria for Hospice

and Home Health Agency Enrollment in Effort to Healthcare Providers

Crackdown on Fraud AJAnalystRice

aj.rice@ubs.com

+1-212-713 4299

CMS Announces 6-Month Moratoria on Medicare Enrollment of Hospices and James Kurek

AnalystHHAs

james.kurek@ubs.com

This morning (5/13), CMS announced that it is imposing a 6-month moratoria on the +1-212-713 3704

Medicare enrollment of hospices and home health agencies (HHAs) effective May 13,

Jonathan Yong

2026. This announcement is part of an effort by the Trump administration to crackdown

Analyst

on fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare, while CMS noted that this moratoria will allow jonathan.yong@ubs.com

it to temporarily halt the influx of new providers into these high-risk categories. During +1-212-713 6268

the 6-month moratoria, CMS said it will intensify targeted investigations, deploy

Michael Wei

advanced data analytics, and accelerate the removal of hospice and HHA providers from

Associate Analyst

the Medicare program that are suspected of committing fraud. This nationwide michael.wei@ubs.com

approach is said to also eliminate the ability of bad actor operators to evade detection by +1-212-713 2565

simply shifting across state lines. In addition, CMS said the moratoria will apply to all

Joseph Overman

applications for initial Medicare enrollment and certain changes in majority ownership,

which are frequently used to obscure control by bad actors. Importantly, the moratoria joseph.overman@ubs.com

will not impact current enrollments, and existing providers can continue to deliver +1-212-882 0086

services to Medicare beneficiaries.