HomeCare February 22, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 22, 2022)—Medicare paid a total $6.6 billion to nonhospice providers for services provided to hospice beneficiaries between 2010 and 2019, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Nonhospice payments are payments for items and services provided to beneficiaries outside the Medicare hospice benefit during a hospice period of care. Almost half of the 1.2 million to 1.6 million hospice beneficiaries each year received nonhospice items and services during a hospice period of care.
The majority of the $6.6 billion payments to nonhospice providers for hospice beneficiaries were for Medicare Part B items and services, OIG found. Nonhospice payments for Medicare Part A services decreased...
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