Hospice:
MedPAC Concerned About For-Profits, Long-Stay Patients
Published on Fri Mar 24, 2017
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 [...]