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Report: Don't Let Managed Care Ruin Hospice

Published on Thu Mar 28, 2019

If just 20 percent of Medicare decedents used hospice for two weeks before death, the program could save $237 million annually in spending, says a new report commissioned by the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. The savings amount increases by percentage of decedents and duration of hospice use, with Medicare saving an estimated $2.43 billion annually if 100 percent [...]
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