FY2018 Hospice Medicare and Medicaid Rates – At a Glance

Beginning October 1, 2017, hospice payment rates will increase by one percent, in keeping with a requirement enacted as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, Public Law 114-10. In recent weeks the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released documents providing details of the rates; the final rates applicable…