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Hospices Get New Billing Code For Late Certs

Published on Fri Aug 12, 2016

Come Jan. 1, hospices will have a new condition code to use to identify when an occurrence span code 77 period is caused by a late recertification of the terminal illness, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a new transmittal. Old way: Currently, hospices use OSC code 77 to indicate both when orders are not received timely [...]
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