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MedPAC Finalizes Rate Freeze Recommendation For Hospice

Published on Thu Jan 28, 2016

Advisory body to Congress casts suspicion on for-profits, nursing homes. As legislators start to ramp up their budget work, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is urging them to leave hospices out in the cold next year. At its Jan. 14 meeting, MedPAC commissioners approved a recommendation to Congress to eliminate hospices’ Medicare payment rate increase for 2017. The official recommendation [...]
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