CMS is scoring your hospice - Do you know your number?
CMS now scores every hospice from 0 to 16 on nine claims-based metrics — eight utilization measures plus non-hospice spending. Connect Shield shows you your number, reads your own reports alongside it, and tells you exactly what to fix — securely, on encrypted, per-clinic isolated infrastructure.
Look up your hospice's SSVI score
Enter your CCN to see your published CMS score, your full eight-measure breakdown, and how you rank nationally — free.
Every report CMS scores you on, read in one place.
Other tools stop at a lookup. Connect Shield reads your PS&R, beneficiary count, PEPPER, and CAHPS alongside the published CMS data — then turns it into a to-do list your leadership can act on.
Published SSVI lookup
Your exact CMS score for all 6,643 scored hospices, with every one of the nine metrics broken down.
PS&R risk drivers
Upload Report 810 and get RN intensity, length of stay, and reimbursement calculated in seconds.
CAP exposure
Turn your beneficiary count into a live aggregate-cap calculation with a clawback estimate.
PEPPER & CAHPS
Read your outlier target areas and survey scores against national thresholds, in plain terms.
Survey & CoP auditor
Track deficiencies and audit charts against the Medicare Conditions of Participation.
Atlas assistant
Ask your compliance data anything — SSVI, CAP, RN intensity — and get precise answers.
Free: look up any hospice's SSVI score
Every Medicare-certified hospice has a public page with its full breakdown, both halves of the score, and national and state ranking. No signup.
Confidence starts with visibility.
Our mission is to empower hospice leadership with the intelligence, tools, and visibility needed to navigate compliance with confidence.
Built around the terms you're already searching.
A lookup tells you the score. We tell you what to do about it.
A score lookup tells you the number. Connect Shield reads your own PS&R, PEPPER, CAHPS, and QAPI reports against that score and turns it into a list your leadership can work through.
Secure by design
Connect Shield works from CMS agency-level data and the reports you upload — never patient names or diagnoses. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Secure per-clinic access
Each hospice gets its own portal with hashed credentials, encrypted sessions, and multi-factor authentication support.
Sourced straight from CMS
SSVI figures come directly from the CMS-1851-P file. Every measure we show reconciles to your published score.
The things owners ask first.
Is my data secure?+
Yes. Connect Shield works from CMS agency-level claims data and the reports you upload — never patient names or diagnoses — and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. Each clinic's portal is isolated, so only your team can see your data.
Where does the SSVI score come from?+
Directly from the CMS Service and Spending Variation Index file published with the FY2027 Hospice Wage Index proposed rule (CMS-1851-P). We load every scored US hospice and show your exact published number, not an estimate.
What exactly does the SSVI measure?+
CMS scores every hospice 0 to 16 using nine claims-based metrics: eight utilization measures worth one point each, plus a non-hospice spending score worth up to eight. A higher score means an agency's claims patterns diverge further from peer norms. CMS is explicit that it is not a determination of fraud, waste, or abuse.
Is the score you show the real CMS number?+
Yes. For any CCN in the CMS file we display the published FY2025 and FY2024 scores. Every one of the eight utilization flags we show reconciles to the CMS-published utilization score, so the breakdown always adds up to your official number.
Is the SSVI final?+
No. The SSVI was introduced in the FY2027 proposed rule (CMS-1851-P), and CMS solicited comment on both the metrics and the scoring system. Scores shown here come from the data file released with that proposed rule. We update when CMS publishes new data.
How do I get an account?+
Accounts are provisioned per clinic. Book a demo and we set up your secure portal, load your CCN, and walk your team through the dashboard.
How is my login secured?+
Authentication runs on managed infrastructure with hashed credentials, encrypted sessions, and support for multi-factor authentication. Each clinic sees only its own data.
See your full compliance picture in one call.
We'll set up your secure portal, load your CCN, and walk your team through exactly what's driving your score.
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