Deadline Looms for CMS Hospice Payment Reduction ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter

According to the National Association for Home Care & Hospice’s (NAHC) Government Affairs directors, close of business Wednesday, April 30, will be the deadline lawmakers have to add their names to a letter to Health and Humans Services Secretary Michael Leavitt objecting to the Bush Administration’s FY 2009 Budget proposal to cut hospice reimbursement under…