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Industry Notes:

Costs Are Up And Admissions Are Down

Published on Fri Jul 03, 2020

Costs are up and admissions are down under COVID-19, a new industry survey shows. “The admission refusal rate of prospective patient admissions in May was 9.38 percent of referred patients,” says a new survey conducted in June by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. “Of those patients on service, 9.51 percent of the physician-ordered visits were rejected by [...]
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