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Docs Must Compose Hospice Narrative, MAC Stresses

Published on Fri Mar 07, 2014

When medical reviewers find your hospice certifications inadequate, it can mean big denial numbers, so you need to make sure your certs comply with all requirements. "During CGS’s review of hospice documentation by medical review staff, we have identified several attestation statements that do not clearly indicate that the physician was the one that composed the narrative," the HHH Medicare [...]
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