| Subject: | CMS Announces New Proposed Rule to Improve Hospice Care |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 - 10:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it will propose a new rule that would improve the quality of care provided to more than 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries receiving hospice care each year.
The proposed conditions of participation (CoP) for hospices would ease the regulatory burden for hospice providers and improve the quality of care for all hospice patients, including the expanding population of Medicare patients choosing this benefit.
Under the proposed rule, the... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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