June 18, 2019 – The National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care (Coalition) believe it is vital both to ensure the Medicare hospice benefit is available to all dying Americans and that it continues to deliver the value that patients, families and caregivers deserve. It is for that reason that the Coalition wrote to express their concern for rate and additional regulatory burden proposals published in the FY2020 Hospice Wage Index proposed rule. Read comment letter HERE.