tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 17

Reimbursement: Get More Medicare Pay for Concurrently Providing Hospice & Curative Services

Tip: Hospices aren’t the only provider type that can earn extra reimbursement. A new model program could rapidly change the landscape of providing hospice and palliative care along with treatment services to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Soon your patients will no longer be forced to choose between receiving either palliative care or curative treatments. Would Your Patients be Interested? Although both Medicare and Medicaid cover hospice care, a beneficiary is no longer eligible to receive curative care when he chooses hospice care. The Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) aims to change this paradigm, and the Centers for Medicare...

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