tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 28

Hospice: INCREASED MEDICARE RATES ON DECK FOR HOSPICE

Community networking, fundraising key to staying in the black If the payment increase offered by Medicare this year is less than hospices would like, it should be an incentive to wean themselves off the Medicare reimbursement stream, one expert says. Hospice rates will see a 3.4 percent increase in fiscal year 2004 - the same rate of increase as 2003 - according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' July 3 program memorandum A-03-057. "The rates are about what we thought they would be," says Janet Neigh with the Hospice Association of America. "The 3.4...

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