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Check Out New Medicare Data Resource
Published on Tue Aug 17, 2021
Check Out New Medicare Data Resource You can get concrete data about how COVID-19 affected Medicare beneficiaries — and the healthcare providers that serve them — in a recent “COVID-19 Snapshot: Impact on the Medicare Population” document. For example: Five percent of COVID-19 patients discharged by the hospital went to hospice as of April 24, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reveals in the snapshot. See more data online at www.cms.gov/files/document/medicare-covid-19-data-snapshot-fact-sheet.pdf.
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Hospice Pay Will Increase Starting Oct. 1 — But Not As Much As Proposed
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Medicare Takes Baby Steps Toward Improving Hospice Addendum
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Number Of OIG Audit Reports On Hospices Hits Double-Digits
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Check Out New Medicare Data Resource
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