Industry Note:
Skilled Visits Vary At End Of Hospice, JAMA Study Says
Published on Fri Feb 12, 2016
Industry takes another popular press beating. Day of the week, service setting, location, and ethnicity made a difference when it came to Medicare hospice patients receiving “professional” services at end of life, a new study shows. Of the 661,557 Medicare hospice beneficiaries who died in federal fiscal year 2014, 81,478 (12.3 percent) received no professional staff visits in the last [...]