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Medicare Proposes 2% Pay Increase For Hospices

Published on Fri Apr 29, 2016

Cap year switch to take place in 2017. MedPAC may be agitating for a hospice rate freeze, but at least for 2017 a pay increase is still in the works. In its proposed rule for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposes a 2 percent increase to Medicare payment rates for hospices [...]
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