Eli's Hospice Insider
Hospice News:
It's Time To Pick Up Your New PEPPER
Published on Fri May 17, 2019 
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The newest hospice PEPPER report is now available. The free benchmarking report from Medicare covers the same target areas as last year, including long length of stay, various service levels provided in various facilities, long General Inpatient (GIP) LOS, and hospices providing no GIP or Continuous Home Care. See more information at https://pepper.cbrpepper.org/.
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