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Add These Attending Physician Changes To Your Hospice Duties

Published on Fri Sep 12, 2014

Tip: Make sure your election form includes language indicating patient choice.  If you fail to follow new requirements about documenting the attending physician for hospice patients, you could forfeit the payment for that patient — and court survey deficiencies to boot. In the 2015 final rule for hospice payment, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sets out two new [...]
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