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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Hospice services

Hospice services

March 13, 2020

The Congress should:

  • for 2021, eliminate the update to the FY 2020 Medicare base payment rates for hospice, and
  • wage adjust and reduce the hospice aggregate cap by 20 percent.

Appeared in: March 2020 - Chapter 12

Topics: Post-acute care.