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Hospices Ask For More Significant Wage Index Relief

5% cap is too high, they tell CMS. For many years, pleas for help with drastically changing wage index figures have fallen on deaf ears. Now Medicare officials have proposed a fix, but hospices think it doesn’t go far enough. Recap: “We are proposing a permanent approach to smooth year-to-year changes in providers’ wage indexes,” the Centers for Medicare & [...]
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