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Beware Stealth Underpayments When Hospice Payment Reform Launches

Published on Thu Dec 10, 2015

Ring in the New Year with tighter billing oversight. If you’re not paying attention to billing details in 2016, you could be costing yourself significant reimbursement and not even know it. Under hospice payment reform finalized in the 2016 payment rule, Medicare will pay hospices routine home care rates in two tiers: higher payment ($186.84) for days 1-60 of a [...]
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