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Hospice Notes:
Medicare Termination Notices Hit Cyberspace
Published on Fri Oct 20, 2017 
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has started publishing termination notices on its website. Among the first group of notices include those for Hospice C@A Hospice Inc. in California. "Regulations for providers and suppliers require CMS to notify the public of Medicare terminations prior to effectuation of the termination. We will be posting the legal notice of termination on this page," CMS says at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Termination-Notices.html.
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