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stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: Abt Associates and CMS-commissioned report on hospice spending 2015, Avalere Health LLC and report of hospice 2015, Eric Himmelman of Avalere Health LLC, hospice and hospitalization days-- payments for during hospice admission periods, hospice patients and ER use, hospice payments--Abt Associates 2015 report to CMS, hospice services--pre-hospice and in final week of patient services, hospice stays and coding variations
By Tim Rowan At last week’s National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization leadership meeting, data analysts commissioned by the Hospice Action Network offered a second opinion on a CMS-commissioned report released recently by Abt Associates. More of a critique than a second opinion, the team from Avalere drew different conclusions than Abt had published and […]
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