25 HPMD Update and Exam Prep

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Prepare for the HMDCB exam with AAHPM’s HMD 2025 Update and Exam Prep, an on-demand, self-paced video course designed to help you succeed. This 6-hour on-demand course covers key exam content based on the HMDCB Blueprint and includes 20 peer-reviewed structured test preparation through faculty-led practice questions and expert analysis.

Recorded from the 2025 Annual Assembly Pre-Conference Workshop, this review helps you refresh your knowledge of hospice regulations, compliance, physician billing, and clinical decision-making while giving you the tools to boost your confidence and focus your study time where it counts most.

NOTE: This course is adapted from the live 2025 HMD Update and Exam Prep Workshop.

Confidently Prepare for the HMDCB Boards

Strengthen your knowledge, skills and practice of hospice and palliative care medicine while building exam-day readiness. Learn at your own pace with structured, expert-led content designed to sharpen your skills and keep you up to date.

What’s Included

  • 6 Hours of CME/MOC Credit – Earn CME and ABIM MOC points
  • Test Prep Question PDF – Practice with 20 peer-reviewed questions on hospice regulations, compliance, and billing.
  • Expert-Led Video Segments – Study anytime with structured modules, practice questions, and detailed faculty analysis.

Target Audience

Hospice Medical Directors
HPM Physicians
Physicians Preparing for the HMDCB Exam

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Apply hospice eligibility criteria, certification requirements, and documentation practices (e.g., F2F, narratives) to ensure regulatory compliance and high-quality care. 
  2. Demonstrate effective medical leadership and interdisciplinary communication skills to support professional and team-based hospice practice. 
  3. Integrate clinical reasoning and prognostication strategies to assess terminal prognosis and determine condition relatedness for hospice eligibility. 
  4. Utilize structured self-assessment and practice questions to evaluate exam readiness and target areas for continued study aligned with the HMDCB blueprint. 
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 ABIM MOC
  • 6.00 CME (physician only)
Activity Published: 
07/30/2025
Activity Expires: 
01/31/2027
Member cost:
$295.00
List Price:
$385.00
Rating: 
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Disclosures 
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. 

Faculty

Bethany Cox Snider, MD HMDC FAAHPM, Chief Medical Officer Hosparus Health 
Balakrishnan Natarajan, MD HMDC, Chief Medical Officer, Accentcare
Bethany Calkins, MD MMM HMDC FAAHPM, Director of Palliative Medicine Western New York Coordinated Medical Care 

Staff
Emily Geary, BA
Julie Tanner, BSN RN-BC CHPN
Julie Bruno, MSW LCSW

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated. 

Evaluation period closes January 31, 2027 at 11:59pm CT for claiming CME credit. 

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition Statement 
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, the 25 HPMD Update and Exam Prep has been approved to meet the general CME requirements for the following ABMS Member Boards:: 

  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. 

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. By submitting your evaluation, you grant AAHPM permission to submit completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting respective BOARD MOC program credit or points as applicable. De-identified aggregated data from the evaluation may be used for research and/or publication and will conform to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis where indicated.  

Evaluation period closes January 31, 2027 at 11:59pm CT for claiming MOC credit. 

Available Credit

  • 6.00 ABIM MOC
  • 6.00 CME (physician only)

Price

Member cost:
$295.00
List Price:
$385.00
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