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Medicare Sticks With 1% Hospice Payment Increase For 2014 -- Before Sequestration

Published on Fri Aug 16, 2013

More payment changes are on the way, CMS signals in final rule. Your costs are likely to go up next year, but your hospice reimbursement rates probably won’t. That’s because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a 2014 payment rule that includes a mere 1 percent increase in Medicare hospice rates. And a 2 percent reduction due [...]
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