Hospice: Cost Of Hospice Care On Federal Radar Screen -- Again
Care provided in nursing homes costs Medicare more, OIG finds
The cost of hospice care is squarely on the feds' radar screens -- and there's a new report to prove it.
In a report released Dec. 20, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) notes that hospice care provided in nursing facilities costs Medicare significantly more on average than hospice care offered in other settings.
Slightly more than a quarter of Medicare hospice beneficiaries resided in nursing homes in 2005, the year analyzed by the OIG.
And hospice care continues to be on the rise, the study shows. In...
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