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Hospital Stay Lengths Increase After PAC Transfer Policy Includes Discharges To Hospice

Published on Fri Apr 09, 2021

Plus: Hospitals are skirting proration for HH discharges, OIG accuses. If you think including discharges to hospice in Medicare’s proration policy for hospital discharges is adversely affecting hospice referrals, an influential advisory body to Congress does not agree. Reminder: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 ex­panded the inpatient prospective payment system post-acute care transfer policy to include hospital transfers to [...]
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