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When hospice patients don't die quickly enough, Medicare comes knocking

By tommayo

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Some years ago, the Medicare program proposed to recoup hospice payments if a patient didn't die within 6 months, which was the probable life-expectancy that a physician had to certify for a patient to receive the Medicare hospice benefit. As I recall, that proposal was met with howls of protest and dropped. What Medicare couldn't do directly, however, it is now doing indirectly, as described in

Full post as published by Health Law Blog on November 27, 2007 (boomark / email).

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