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1.8% Payment Bump For Hospices Stands In Final Rule

Published on Fri Aug 10, 2018

Medicare holds fast to its volatile wage index methodology. If you made budget plans based on Medicare’s proposed rule for 2019 hospice payment, they should be right on target. In the 2019 final rule released Aug. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sticks with its proposal to increase hospice payment rates by 1.8 percent starting Oct. 1. That [...]
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