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Hospice Payment Change Will Create Winners, Losers

Published on Fri Apr 26, 2013

Profit margins to drop for hospices with long-staypatients in U-shaped model, MedPAC expects. Like any payment reform, a change to Medicare’s hospice reimbursement methodology will shake up distribution of payment. Where will you fall under the likeliest new pattern? The hospices benefiting most from the U-shaped methodology deemed likeliest for adoption would be those with lower length of stay patients [...]
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