CMS – the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – recently proposed a $580 million increase in fiscal year 2023 hospice payments despite MedPAC’s earlier recommendation of a 20% cut in Medicare’s annual per-patient payment limit for hospice providers. The increase comes from CMS’ proposed 3.1 percent market basket update, which results in a 2.7 percent increase over previous payments when factoring in a 0.4 percentage productivity cut.