Advance Care Planning: Bolster ACP Billing With These 5 Q&As;
Tip: Understand both time and policy parameters to ensure clean claims.
Discussing end-of-life care isn’t easy, but it’s tremendously important — regardless of whether the patient is old and facing a terminal illness or young and healthy. Not only does advance care planning (ACP) pose certain challenges for patients and providers, but compliance issues often arise surrounding these complicated services, too.
Context: In a recent report, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) lasered in on ACP services. The national watchdog says that Medicare providers weren’t always in compliance with federal requirements when billing for those...
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