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Measure On Hospice Visits In Last Days To Undergo Significant Revision

Published on Fri Sep 18, 2020

Only RN and MSW visits will count toward claims-based measure. A Hospice Quality Reporting Program change that will ease providers’ data collection and reporting burdens will also make big changes to the assessment of how hospices treat their patients in the last days of their lives. Old way: Since April 2017, hospices have been collecting data in Hospice Item Set [...]
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