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Downward-Trending Hospice Stats Won't Stop Scrutiny

Published on Fri May 06, 2016

Neuro patients’ LOS is 150 percent longer than cancer patients, rule points out. If you want to know where you’re likely to get scrutinized, take a look at the facts the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cites in its 2017 proposed payment rule for hospice: The number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving hospice has grown from 513,000 in Fiscal Year [...]
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