Industry Notes:
New Law: Hospices To Be Surveyed Every 3 Years
Published on Fri Sep 26, 2014
After a series of high-profile, extremely critical articles about some hospices’ practices in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other press outlets, Congress has passed a law aimed at combatting fraud and abuse in the hospice Medi-care benefit. The House and Senate have approved the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transfor-mation (IMPACT) Act, and President Obama is expected to sign it into law soon. [...]