tci Part B Insider - 2007 Issue 39
MYTHBUSTER: Clarification--Avoid Making Alphabet Soup Out of Modifiers GV and GW
Hospice participation is growing, so make sure you know how to bill for itIf you-re billing Medicare for hospice charges, it's time to get your modifiers straight, or you could face denials.The Insider-s Vol. 8, No. 36 included a reader question entitled, -Don't Forget Modifiers for Hospice Patients.- The answer to this question noted that the attending physician for the hospice patient should append modifiers GV and GW, and that the non-attending physician should use modifiers Q5 and Q6, but this is incorrect, notes Jean Acevedo, LHRM, CPC, CHC, PCS, of Acevedo Consulting, Inc.-The GV and...
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