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Diagnosis Coding:

Hospices Must List All Of Patients' Diagnoses On Claims

Published on Fri Aug 14, 2015

Unlike payment reform, new coding rule takes effect Oct. 1. Hospices are warily eyeing Medicare’s new instructions for placing diagnosis codes on claims. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is “clarifying that hospices will report all diagnoses identified in the initial and comprehensive assessments on hospice claims, whether related or unrelated to the terminal prognosis of the individual effective [...]
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