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CMS: Joint Replacements Related To Hospice Services

Published on Thu Feb 18, 2016

What’s related and what’s not? Over provider protest, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has chosen to include hospice payments in its Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model calculations, as long as the services are deemed related. But what CMS and hospices consider related appears to vary widely. “While it is commendable for CMS to consider the needs [...]
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