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CBO Points To Slower Hospice Outlays

Published on Fri Sep 13, 2013

The meteoric rise of hospice spending seems to have come to an end. Medicare hospice spending rose roughly 20 percent per year from 2000 to 2005 but only 6 percent per year from 2007 to 2010, notes the Congressional Budget Office in a new paper analyzing why Medicare fee-for-service spending has slowed. Spending for durable medical equipment and Part B [...]
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