Home Health & Hospice Week

Diagnosis Coding:

Hospice Failure To Thrive, Debility Claims Start Returning To Provider In Fall 2014

Code all coexisting conditions, CMS also urges in final rule. You’ve got about a year to figure out how to avoid using Adult Failure to Thrive and Debility as the primary diagnosis on hospice claims. Why? In its hospice 2014 payment final rule published in the Aug. 7 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sets Oct. 1, [...]
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