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Industry Note:

Check Your 2013 Hospice Medicaid Rates

Published on Thu Sep 13, 2012

Hospices waiting for official notice of Medicaid rates will find they look very familiar, since they are almost the same as Medicare rates. See the rates -- $153.65 (Routine Home Care), $895.91 (Continuous Home Care), $167.07 (Inpa-tient Respite Care), and $682.59 (General Inpatient Care) -- in a Sept. 7 CMS memo at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/Hospice/Downloads/hospicerates2013.pdf. The In-patient Respite Care rate varies the most in comparison with Medicare rates for fiscal year 2013, which are in a transmittal at www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Transmittals/Downloads/R2497CP.pdf. Rates take effect Oct. 1.
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