Judi Lund Person

As Senior Advisor for Fraud & Abuse, Judi brings decades of experience to NPHI and a dedication to advancing regulatory and compliance standards in hospice care. She is the principal of the newly established LundPerson & Associates, LLC, a hospice consulting firm. For 21 years, she served as the Vice President, Regulatory and Compliance at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), where she was a key contact with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies, ensuring that NHPCO’s voice was heard by policymakers. She also represented NHPCO with each of the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and established a monthly NHPCO/MAC Collaborative meeting with all three MACs. 

Over her two-decade tenure with NHPCO, Judi developed and updated countless tools and resources for hospice providers, including compliance guides for Medicare hospice Conditions of Participation, toolkits for traveling patients, survey preparedness, live discharges, and the admission process, as well as state/county rate charts for Medicare rates each year. She has spoken at state hospice meetings throughout the country and is known for turning regulations into “plain English” so that providers understand how changes impact their programs. 

Prior to joining NHPCO, Judi served for 22 years as the President and CEO of The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care, where she provided support and resources for hospice providers and end-of-life care coalitions in the Carolinas. Early in her career, Judi was part of a small group of advocates that worked for the passage of the Medicare Hospice Benefit in Congress. That advocacy work led to the inclusion of hospice in Medicare in 1982, with the original Medicare hospice conditions of participation published in 1983. 

Judi is the inaugural recipient of the NPHI Lifetime in Excellence Award, which she received at the 2024 Annual Summit for her remarkable advocacy efforts across the United States.