
After private equity firms bought for-profit hospices, Medicare paid $993 more per hospice encounter and stays ran 6.3 days longer, with no increase in visits.
Access to HIEs makes it much easier to respond to patients’ requests for their health data.
Christopher Hobson, M.D., says that access to HIEs makes it much easier and quicker to respond to patients’ requests for their health data, as required by the information blocking rule.





