Currently, Medicare patients that wish to receive palliative hospice care have a tough choice to make—forgo any curative treatment or incur all hospice care costs. This could change, however, with the recent launch of CMS's...more
On January 7, 2012, the OIG posted Advisory Opinion No. 12-22 to address a co-management arrangement between a hospital and physicians that is designed to align incentives by offering compensation based on quality, service,...more