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Hospice Utilization Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels, but Fraud Casts a Shadow

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The nations hospice utilization rate among Medicare decedents has once again surpassed 50%, for the first time since the pandemic. Hospice utilization reached 51.7% in 2023, up more than two percentage points from the prior year, according to recent data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC).

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