Home Health & Hospice Week

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Medicare Pulls The Plug On Hospice-Related Test Program

Medicare’s Seriously Ill Population test program is officially dead. “After careful consideration, [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] will not move forward with the Seriously Ill Population (SIP) Component of the Primary Care First (PCF) Model,” CMS says in a message to providers. “After careful review, CMS has determined that the proposed SIP outreach method, which was designed to [...]
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