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Hospice Benes In SNFs Cost Medicare More Money
Published on Fri May 22, 2015
Hospice services furnished in nursing homes got another knock by a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers led by Dr. Pedro Gozalo of Brown University compared the costs for nursing home patients in their last year of life in 2004 versus 2009. In that time period, hospice use went from 27.6 percent of patients to [...]