Pallimed: “Unless some action is taken by hospice organizations and grass roots efforts to push back the cuts, I imagine many hospice agencies who are not making a 15% profit are going to find it hard to stay in business . . .
. . . And all this on the heels of the study that showed hospice care saves an average of $2,309 for every Medicare recipient receiving hospice services.”
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