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CMS Pulls The Trigger On Hospice Payment Level Rebalancing

Published on Fri Apr 26, 2019

So-called ‘budget-neutral’ rebalancing will really mean a cut to hospice pay. After years of criticizing that Routine Home Care visits are overpaid, Medicare is doing something about it — and it will cost hospices. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser- vices has proposed reducing RHC payment rates and increasing the rates for the other three levels of hospice care [...]
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