MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy: Hospice Services: Chapter 9
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Description
Discusses payment adequacy for hospice and palliative support services. Includes data on average costs by day and aggregate margins by urban and rural status, as well as demographics on Medicare decedents who used hospice during 2010 and between 2018-2022. Compares the actual hospice utilization rates in micropolitan, rural adjacent, rural nonadjacent, and frontier areas to urban hospice utilization rates.
Date
03/2024
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Document
Organization
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Healthcare business and finance · Hospice and palliative care · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data