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CMS To Eye Live Discharge Rates Under Payment Reform

Agency to examine effects of two-tiered system. If you think changes to your live discharge rates under hospice payment reform will slip by unnoticed, think again. In the 2016 final rule for hospice payment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services noted that it will focus on live discharges under the new methodology. “We will monitor the impact of the [...]
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