Hospice:
Non-Cancer Diagnoses Catch MedPAC's Eye
Published on Fri Apr 01, 2016
Commission officially recommends 2017 rate freeze to Congress. Flat spending and a decrease in live discharges won’t be enough to keep hospices’ heads off the budget chopping block, if the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission gets it way. In its annual March report to Congress, the influential advisory body points out the “substantial market entry” of mostly for-profit hospices since 2000, [...]