Home Health & Hospice Week

Hospice:

Medicare Pay Increase Drops To 1% For 2018

Warnings: Rebasing cuts seem poised on the horizon. As your costs rise, your reimbursement increase will fall for next year, according to the 2018 proposed rule for hospice payment. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services floats a 1 percent payment increase for fiscal year 2018, which starts Oct. 1, the agency says in the rule released April 27. (For [...]
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