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Hospitals Must Plan For Hospice Discharges

Published on Fri Oct 04, 2019

Hospices may see some effect from Medicare’s new discharge planning rule, too. The final rule published in the Sept. 30 Federal Register specifies that a hospital “discharge planning evaluation must include an evaluation of a patient’s likely need for appropriate post-hospital services, including, but not limited to, hospice care services, post-hospital extended care services, home health services, and non-health care [...]
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