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Give Medicare An Earful About Risk Adjustment

Published on Fri May 19, 2017

Have an opinion on whether CMS should use social risk factors to adjust its hospice quality measure scores? Now’s the time to speak up. “We understand that social risk factors such as income, education, race and ethnicity, employment, disability, community resources, and social support … play a major role in health,” CMS says in its 2018 proposed rule on hospice [...]
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