When we launched the free SSVI Score Lookup, it told you what your score was. The question every operator asked next was the obvious one: “Okay — but where is that number coming from?” Now you can see it. We’ve added a full point-by-point breakdown to every result. Search your hospice, click one link, and you’ll see exactly which spending bracket and which utilization measures built your score.
See Your Breakdown — Free
Search by hospice name or CCN, then click “Where do these points come from?” on your result.
Open the SSVI Score Lookup →One New Link: “Where Do These Points Come From?”
Nothing about the search changes. Look up your hospice the same way — by name or CCN — and you’ll still get your FY2024 and FY2025 total score, your two component scores, and your national percentile. What’s new is a link under your result: “Where do these points come from?” Click it and the breakdown expands in place for both fiscal years. No signup, still free.
What the Breakdown Shows You
Your SSVI is the sum of two scores, and the breakdown opens up both:
1. Non-Hospice Spending (0–8) — the exact bracket you landed in
CMS sorts every hospice into eight brackets by how much Medicare spent on your patients outside your per-diem. The breakdown shows your bracket, the dollar range that defines it, and the points it earned — for example:
- $48.20/day · $612,400 total — bracket 6 of 8 → 6 of 8 points.
That tells you instantly whether your spending score is a volume story (a large census accumulating modest per-day spend) or an intensity story (a smaller census with very high per-day spend). For the full mechanics, see Decoding Your SSVI Score, Part 1: Non-Hospice Spending.
2. Utilization (0–8) — the eight measures, as a checklist
The Utilization Score is eight separate tripwires, each worth one point. The breakdown lists all eight as a pass/fail checklist, and for each one it shows your hospice’s value next to the exact CMS threshold for that fiscal year — so you can see not just whether you were flagged, but how close you were. For example:
- ✗ Discharges with LOS ≥ 180 days — your 34.1% · flagged at ≥ 33.3% (+1)
- ✓ Live discharge rate — your 29.0% · flagged at ≥ 46.7% (0)
- ✗ Return to same hospice within 7 days — value suppressed by CMS · flagged at ≥ 18.2% (+1)
Two things to notice. First, a measure can flag by a hair — that LOS line is a tenth of a percent over — which means it’s often the most reversible. Second, even when CMS suppresses your raw value for a small-count measure, the breakdown still tells you the measure was flagged, because that comes straight from CMS’s scoring-component file. For what each of the eight measures tests, see Decoding Your SSVI Score, Part 2: The Utilization Score.
Why We Added This
A single 0-to-16 number tells you that you have a problem, not what to do about it. The breakdown turns the score into a worklist: you can see whether your points are driven by spending or utilization, which specific measures tipped over, and — because every threshold is the one CMS used for that fiscal year — exactly how far you’d have to move to clear each flag. That’s the difference between “our score went up” and “our long-length-of-stay percentage crossed the line and our 7-day return rate doubled.” One of those you can act on.
It also makes year-over-year jumps legible. If your score climbed, the breakdown shows whether it was one new flag or a wholesale shift — and that’s usually the first clue to what changed.
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If the breakdown surfaces a measure or a spending bracket you didn’t expect, book a focused, 1-hour working session. We’ll trace the flag back to the patients and claims driving it and lay out prioritized steps to bring it down — the same data work behind our Qlarant rebuttals, applied before a letter ever arrives.
Book Your $400 SSVI Action PlanFrequently Asked Questions
How do I get to the breakdown?
Search your hospice at the SSVI Score Lookup, then click “Where do these points come from?” under your result. It expands in place for both FY2024 and FY2025.
Why is one of my values blank?
CMS suppresses the underlying value for measures with a small patient count, to protect privacy. The breakdown still shows whether that measure was flagged — the flag itself comes from CMS’s published scoring-component file and is reliable even when the number is hidden.
Are the thresholds the same every year?
No. CMS recalculates the percentile thresholds and the spending brackets for each fiscal year, so the breakdown shows the FY2024 values against FY2024 thresholds and the FY2025 values against FY2025 thresholds. A measure can flag in one year and clear in the other even if your number barely moved.
See where your points come from.
Open the SSVI Score Lookup →Disclaimer: The SSVI is part of CMS’s FY2027 Hospice Wage Index proposed rule (CMS-1851-P) and is not finalized. Scores, component values, and thresholds are reproduced from CMS’s published Service and Spending Variation Index files for FY2024 and FY2025 and are provided for informational purposes. The example figures above are illustrative. The SSVI is not a determination of fraud, waste, or abuse.