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Hospice Claims Under Fire For Terminal Prognosis

Published on Fri Jan 15, 2016

Warning: Dementia patients at high risk. Hospice claims are subject to more scrutiny every day, especially for patients who exceed the sixmonth timeframe. Failing to document these patients’ terminal condition makes their claims low-hanging fruit for medical reviewers. “Medicare coverage of hospice depends on a physician’s certification that an individual’s prognosis is a life expectancy of six (6) months or [...]
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