Home Health & Hospice Week

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Hospice Pay Rates To Rise 1.8% Next Year

Watch out: Reducing RHC rates with rebalancing is still on CMS's future agenda. Starting in October, you'll have a bit more money to meet your many obligations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services has proposed a 1.8 percent increase to its Medicare hospice payment rates, according to the fiscal year 2019 proposed rule for hospice payment. (For specific service [...]
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