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MedPAC Voices Distrust Of For-Profits

Published on Fri Mar 27, 2015

Advisory body highlights LOS disparities. For-profit hospices have taken a beating from both the government and the popular press for a while, and that trend continues in the latest Medicare Payment Advisory Commission re-port to Congress. “Between 2012 and 2013, the number of for-profit hospices increased by more than 9 percent, while the number of nonprofit hospices was relatively flat [...]
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