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Compliance:

Toe The Hospice Drug Line Or Risk Fraud Charges, Takebacks

Published on Thu Dec 12, 2013

Hospice drug coverage isn’t just a reimbursement concern — it’s a compliance one as well. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is requiring Part D drug plans to implement prior authorization for drugs for hospice patients, and is ordering them to pursue recoupments for such drugs that were already inappropriately paid for when the hospice Notice of Election came [...]
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