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Class Action Lawsuit Underway Against Hospice Cap Calculations With Sequester

Published on Fri Mar 27, 2015

Don’t forget to submit your self-calculated aggregate cap for 2014 by March 31, or face payment suspension. Meanwhile, a group lawsuit is now underway against cap calculations for 2013. After much confusion, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finally indicated that it will include sequester funds in hospices’ per patient caps, even though they never received the sequester payments [...]
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