Reimbursement:
Above-Cap Hospices Fare Worst Under New System
Published on Fri Aug 07, 2015
Who stands to benefit under the new system? The payment model changes are supposed to be budget neutral, so they don’t affect the payment increase of 1.1 percent ($160 million) for 2016 that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimates. CMS arrives at that figure using the 1.6 percent FY 2016 hospice payment update percentage ($250 million increase), the [...]