Hospice:
MedPAC Recommends Another Hospice Rate Freeze
Published on Fri Jan 27, 2017
Hospice provider numbers continue to grow. Declining profit margins may not be enough to save hospices from the budget ax this fall. As expected, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in a Jan. 12 meeting unanimously approved a recommendation for elimination of hospices’ payment update in 2018. MedPAC had given preliminary approval to the measure in December (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. [...]