tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2011 Issue 2

Industry News: MedPAC Calls For 1% Increase to Hospice Payments

Medicare hospice spending has increased 300% over seven years. Hospices would see a 1 percent payment rate increase for Medicare in 2012, if an influential advisory body to Congress gets its way. That increase would be down from hospices' 1.8 percentincrease this year, notes the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. But the 1 percent update would be better than the zero percent update or cuts that the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended for other provider types. MedPAC based its recommendation to Congress, which will be contained in its March report, on hospices' 4.2 percent average...

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