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Don't Let Physician Assistant Hospice Change Confuse You

Published on Fri May 11, 2018

CMS is clear on PAs' dos and don'ts under the new regs. You'll still need to get a physician to certify a patient's terminal illness and perform the face-to-face encounter, despite a change to physician assistant duties in the 2019 hospice proposed payment rule. Thanks to a provision enacted in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 earlier this year, "effective [...]
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