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Quality:

Lengthy Window Stays Intact For New Spending Measure

Published on Thu Nov 10, 2016

Hospice services will count toward spending.

You’ll be responsible for patients long after discharge, at least in one respect, under a newly adopted quality measure. Despite industry protest, the Centers for 1Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized the four IMPACT Act-required quality measures as-is in its 2017 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule. For the new measure [...]
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