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Published: October 15, 2007
Hospices must pay millions
By Jeff Raymond
Oklahoma hospices must return millions in Medicare funds because their terminally ill patients lived too long.

Nationwide, hundreds of hospices in 25 states owe almost $200 million to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for care they have provided to dying patients, according to the National Alliance for Hospice Access , a group that formed in March to change the cap on hospice payments.

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