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MedPAC Wants Wage Index Change For Cap Too

Published on Fri Dec 20, 2019

Rural providers would bear the brunt of wage adjustment. A 20 percent cut to the hospice aggregate cap amount might be only part of cap-related cuts coming to some hospices, if Congress heeds a forthcoming MedPAC recommendation. In addition to cutting the aggregate cap amount by 20 percent, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission plans to recommend that Congress require the [...]
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