We looked at every hospice survey in the United States from October 2021 through March 2026 — 86,113 citations at 7,448 hospices. The same handful of documentation failures come up again and again.
Source: CMS hospice survey data, October 2021 – March 2026. 7,448 hospices, counted by the CFR paragraph each citation names. The most cited requirement, plan of care content (42 CFR 418.56(c)), reached 57.2% of surveyed hospices on its own. See the full ranking.
Each one maps to a specific finding in the national survey data — and each runs on the structured record, not on guesswork.
ComplyWell reads the signature date on every visit in your export and names the ones still unsigned, with the clinician and the date of the visit, while the note is still fresh enough to sign.
ComplyWell compares the date the comprehensive assessment was completed with the election date, and flags any patient still without one as the fifth day approaches — before the chart is closed and forgotten.
ComplyWell compares who actually visited against what the plan of care ordered. If a social worker is seeing the patient monthly but the plan of care never specifies that frequency, that is a citation waiting to happen — and it falls under the most cited requirement in the national data.
ComplyWell tracks which notes are unsigned, how long they have been open, and who owes them — then nudges that clinician directly rather than routing it through the administrator.
See which ones your agency is exposed to, on your own workflow.