Industry Notes: Hospices Should Shore Up Claims Data
Plus: Competitive bidding keeps growing
Starting in July, CMS requires your hospice claims to be a lot more detailed.
According to MLN Matters article MM5567, hospice providers will have to "describe the services provided in the course of delivering each hospice level of care billed" as of July 1.
Starting then, hospice providers will have to indicate on their claims the number of services/visits provided to each Medicare patient. In addition, the hospice claim should demonstrate the total number of direct patient care visits per category "and not as an aggregate total for all," the article states.
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