Wondering how your hospice patients' length of stay stacks up to your peers? Check out one MAC's latest non-cancer length-of-stay data. The condition with the longest average LOS is Alzheimer's at 225 days, according to Palmetto GBA's latest data, from July to December of 2011. The condition with the shortest average LOS is renal at 44 days. Note:
For a free link to Palmetto's NCLOS data, e-mail editor Rebecca Johnson at rebeccaj@eliresearch.com with "NCLOS data" in the subject line.