Hospice: Hospices Brace For Modest 0.9% Pay Increase

Wage index adjustment strips $100 million from hospice payments in 2013.Medicare payment reform is on hospices' horizon, but it's not here yet. In the meantime, the feds continue to ratchet down hospice payment rate increases.Hospices had been waiting anxiously for word of the Medicare payment rates that would take effect in a few short months on Oct. 1. When the [...]