Med Pac Report Recommends 0% Rate Increase for Hospice in 2014

The report recommends that Congress should eliminate the update to the hospice payment rates for fiscal year 2014.  They continued a previous year recommendation to increase the per day payment rate at the beginning of the hospice episode and relatively lower payment per day as the length of the episode increases.  To include a relatively higher payment for the costs associated with patient death at the end of the episode. 

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http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Mar13_EntireReport.pdf