Home Health & Hospice Week

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2016 Rule Blindsides Hospices With Payment Reform Proposal

More complex methodologies discarded. If Medicare’s hospice payment reform isn’t what you were expecting, you’re not the only one. “This legislation emerged largely in re-sponse to [the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s] March 2009 Report to Congress, which cited rapid growth of for-profit hospices and longer lengths of stay that raised concerns regarding a per diem payment structure that encouraged inappropriate [...]
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