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Hospice Payment Reform Fails To Move The Needle On Skilled Visits At End Of Life

Published on Thu Jun 14, 2018

Only slight improvement shown by claims data. Medicare’s hoped-for solution for boosting care levels in the last days of life has yet to materialize, the 2019 proposed rule for hospice payment indicates. The problem: “We are concerned that many hospice beneficiaries may not be receiving skilled visits during the last days of life,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
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