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Annual PEPPER Reports Are Not In The Mail -- Download Them Instead

Published on Fri Apr 25, 2014

The new Hospice Program for Evalu-ating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER), with statistics through September 2013, is now available, CMS says in a message to providers. CMS has made two changes to the report. First, the “Live Discharges” target area now includes all beneficiary episodes, not just those with a length of stay less than 25 days, the agency notes. [...]
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