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Highest Margin In A Decade Leads To Rate-Cut Rec

Published on Fri Mar 22, 2019

Wise providers will diversify revenue sources. Medicare’s skyrocketing spending on hospice services has brought with it the inevitable accompanying scrutiny — and now pressure from an influential advisory body to Congress to reduce payment rates. “For 2020, the Congress should reduce the fiscal year 2019 Medicare base payment rates for hospice providers by 2 percent,” the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission [...]
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