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Diagnosis Coding:

Coding Requirement Puts Hospices On Guard

Published on Fri May 08, 2015

CMS accuses industry of gaming the system. Medicare’s proposed instructions for diagnosis coding may put hospices on the hook for significantly increased patient costs. Old way: In previous guidance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told hospices that the only diagnoses they had to put on the claim were those for conditions related to the terminal diagnosis, noted CMS’s [...]
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