Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

JAMA Study Focuses On Differences Between For-Profit, Non-Profit Hospices

New study keeps hot button issue of live discharges front and center. Referral sources, potential patients and others may learn your live discharge rate, if regulators listen to the authors of a new study. A survey of hospices conducted in 2008 and 2009 found that for-profit hospices had a higher disenrollment rate and cared for a larger proportion of patients [...]
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