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COVID Aide Flexibility To Become Permanent

Published on Fri Apr 16, 2021

Hospice-home health alignment encourages efficiency. If the regulatory waiver allowing the use of pseudo-patients for hospice aide competency testing during COVID has been making your life easier, then you’ll like a related provision in the new hospice proposed rule for 2022. Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services allowed the use of pseudo-patients for aide competency testing under a [...]
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