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Hospices’ Reporting Burden Will Increase, If GAO Gets Its Way

Additional reporting makes sense for hospitals and SNFs, not hospices, HHS maintains. Hospices aren’t doing as good a job reporting abuse and neglect of their patients as hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are, says a watchdog agency that wants to change that. Hospices have received a boatload of scrutiny over quality of care in the wake of two HHS Office [...]
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