Monday, August 14, 2006

Medicare Hospice Payment Rates Released

CMS has released the base rates for hospice care in FY2007. It is a 3.4% increase which is along the lines of what everyone was hoping for and expecting.

This is only 1/2 of the formula that allows us to know what we will get paid for our work on October 1, 2006, but it is the part that effects every provider in the nation. The other half deals with exactly how much you get paid on the local level. Each year some people get hit hard in the next step, but those are much more local problems.

3.4% is a good raise.

(Hat tip to NHPCO.)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The other half deals with exactly how much you get paid on the local level. How is this determined?