Home Health & Hospice Week

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MedPAC Puts Hospice Under The Microscope

Nonhospice spending gets another go-round. Hospices may feel they’ve been examined six ways to Sunday already, but an influential advisory body to Congress is planning to pile on yet more scrutiny. “Hospice remains a very important, although sometimes controversial, aspect … in the Medicare program,” noted Medicare Payment and Advisory Commission Chair Michael Chernew with Harvard Medical School, in the [...]
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