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Hospice Final Rule Reduces Pay Update Slightly

Published on Fri Aug 07, 2020

Big swings for wage index areas may batter already struggling hospices. A minor reduction in hospices’ inflation update will translate to $40 million less in hospice payments. Back in April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed increasing hospice payment rates by 2.6 percent, boosting payments by an estimated $580 million. Now in its newly issued final rule, CMS [...]
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