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IMPACT Law To Bring Data Changes As Well As More Frequent Hospice Surveys

Published on Thu Oct 09, 2014

Watch for efforts to standardize the patient data you collect across post-acute care settings, now that the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 has become law. President Obama signed the legislation Oct. 6. The IMPACT law also requires hospice surveys every three years. That’s welcomed by many in the industry. “A lot of things can go wrong when [...]
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