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RN Visits Tick Up Under Payment Reform

Published on Fri Mar 23, 2018

Social worker visits remain virtually unchanged under SIA policy. The jury is still out on whether Medicare's hospice payment reform model implemented last year is fixing the benefit's perceived problems, but the latest MedPAC report contains one encouraging statistic. In 2016, Medicare paid hospice providers roughly $120 million for registered nurse and social worker visits in the last seven days [...]
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