Industry Note:
OIG Wants Prorated Hospital Pay For Discharges To Hospice
Published on Fri Jun 07, 2013
Move could lengthen hospital stays unnecessarily, CMS counters. Hospice lengths of stay may get even shorter for patients referred by hospitals if the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services listens to the HHS Office of Inspector General. In a new report, the OIG recommends that CMS institute a proration of the hospital DRG payment when the hospital discharges a patient [...]