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Advisory Body Pushes Hospice Rate Freeze

Published on Fri Jan 19, 2024

Non-hospice spending grabs MedPAC’s attention. While everyone seems to agree that hospice saves Medicare money, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission still wants to slash funds from hospice providers’ rates. In the advisory body’s Jan. 11 meeting, commissioners unanimously voted to recommend that Congress eliminate the update to the hospice base rate for 2025. Why? Hospices saw a 10 percent jump [...]
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