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Advance Planning For Wage Index Swings Goes Away

Published on Fri Aug 09, 2019

Multiple areas will see double-digit index changes. Hospices will become more like other providers with the implementation of a wage index methodology revision Oct. 1. Old way: “Historically, [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] has calculated the hospice wage index values using the prior year’s pre-floor, pre-reclassified hospital wage index because it was the most recently finalized hospital wage [...]
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