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Live Discharge Rate Dropped Again In 2017

Published on Thu Jun 14, 2018

LOS ticks upward. You have only a matter of days left to give Medicare your two cents on its proposed rule for hospice payment for next year. Consider these 2017 statistics revealed in the 2019 rule when formulating your feedback: The average length of stay was 79.7 days, increasing slightly from 79.2 days in FY 2016 and 78.1 days in [...]
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