tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 19

Industry Note: Cost Report Changes Afoot for Variety of Hospice Types

The Centers for Medicare & MedicaidServices (CMS) may have issued freestanding hospices’ new cost report forms over a year ago, but new instructions are still coming down. In July, CMS issued a transmittal containing new instructions for and changes to the form. See the transmittal at www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Transmittals/Downloads/R2P243.pdf . The changes include changes to Worksheet A, Worksheet A-6, and Worksheets B and B-1, notes the NationalAssociation for Home Care & Hospice. Meanwhile, similar changes for non-freestanding-hospice cost reports have yet to be finalized, notes TheHealth Group in Morgantown, W. Va. For skilled nursing facility-based providers, “the significant...

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