CMS Proposed 1.1% Payment Increase for Hospice

CMS has issued its Proposed Rule FY 2014 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update.  It has yet to be published in the Federal Register.  The proposed rule will be published in the Federal Register on May, 13. The rule would increase hospice payments by 1.1%.  It proposes to replace the current quality reporting system in 2016 with new a system that requires to hospice to collect and submit new patient-data forms.  It also proposes beginning in 2017 to implement a hospice experience-of-care survey for families and friends of hospice patients.

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