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CMS Pulls Back Hospital Billing CR For Hospice Diagnosis

Published on Fri Feb 28, 2014

Stay tuned for new instructions regarding hospital billing for hospice patients. Last No-vember, CMS said in CR 8273 that MACs must "deny an inpatient hospital claim when the principal diagnosis on the inpatient claim matches one of the hospice diagnosis codes" starting April 7. "Services related to a hospice terminal diagnosis provided during a hospice period are included in the [...]
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