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Live Discharge Rate Linked To Profitability, Study Finds

Published on Fri Jul 21, 2017

What does your live discharge rate suggest about your hospice? A new study adds fuel to the feds’ fire for scrutinizing hospices’ live discharge rates. Researchers from the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship and the University of North Carolina used Medicare claims data from 2012 and 2013 and cost reports from 2011 to 2013 “to explore relationships between hospice-level [...]
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