Home Health & Hospice Week

Hospice:

MedPAC Concerned About For-Profits, Long-Stay Patients

Advisory body recommends hospice rates stay flat next year. Medicare profit margin and hospice beneficiaries’ average length of stay are both down, according to the latest Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report, so you might think the advisory body to Congress would be happy. But you’d think wrong. Why? MedPAC still has major concerns about overspending on hospice, it says in [...]
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