Medicare to pay hospices $200 million more in fiscal 2016

Modern Healthcare: The CMS is proposing that hospices get a 1.3% rate increase from Medicare under a proposed rule issued Thursday.

The proposed payment rule means Medicare would spend $200 million more on hospices in fiscal 2016 than in fiscal 2015. However, the increase is slightly less than the 1.4% raise they received for the current year.

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