Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Hospices: MedPAC Has No Favorable Recommendations For You

Commission wants more scrutiny of your long-stay patients. Congress won’t give hospices a payment increase for 2014 — if the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission gets its way. At a Jan. 11 meeting, MedPAC voted to recommend to Congress that no payment should occur for hospices in 2014, reports Washington, D.C.-based Leading Age. The Commissioners added that should the sequester provisions [...]
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