MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy: Hospice Services: Chapter 10
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Description
Discusses payment adequacy for hospice and palliative support services. Includes statistics with breakdowns by urban and rural locations and demographics on Medicare decedents who used hospice during 2010 and between 2017-2021. Compares the actual hospice utilization rates in micropolitan, rural adjacent, rural nonadjacent, and frontier areas to urban hospice utilization rates. Presents data on costs by day, aggregate margins, and the aggregate cap by urban and rural status.
Date
03/2023
Type
Document
Organization
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
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Hospice and palliative care · Medicare · Policy · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data