Hospice:
Hospice Final Rule's Physician Discussion May Mean Tighter Medical Review
Published on Fri Aug 11, 2017
Hospice admission assessment can’t be basis for eligibility, rule says. A deluge of comments in response to Medicare’s 2018 proposed rule for hospice payment may be causing CMS to take a second look at the physician’s role in documenting patients’ eligibility for the benefit. But hospices shouldn’t think they are off the hook for more burdensome documentation requirements. In the [...]