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Hospice Assessment Tool Coming, Despite Concerns

Published on Thu Aug 04, 2016

Can hospices shoulder the extra burden? Hospices are not convinced that a patient assessment tool is the right fit for hospice patients, but Medicare is moving ahead with the idea anyway. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “is considering developing a new data collection mechanism for use by hospices,” it confirms in its 2017 hospice payment update final rule [...]
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