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Beware These Hospice Red Flags

Published on Fri Mar 27, 2015

Half of hospice spending goes to long-stay patients, stats show. MedPAC thinks hospices are getting paid more than enough under Medicare, and that they don’t need a pay raise in 2016. So says the influential advisory body to Congress in its annual set of recommendations sent to lawmakers this month. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission points out that profit margins [...]
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