Hospice:
MedPAC Plans Increased Scrutiny Of Nursing Home Patients Receiving Hospice
Published on Thu Jan 28, 2016
Advisory body to Congress will circle back to this hot-button issue later this year. The significant difference in key statistics for hospice patients residing in facilities continues to draw unflattering attention. “It’s just striking that there are such different lengths of stays for the different facilities, and … even for the same diagnoses, there are different length of stays,” noted [...]