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Know What HETS Is Telling You About Hospice Dates

Published on Fri Sep 07, 2018

Wondering exactly what you’re looking at in the HIPAA Eligibility Transaction System (HETS)? Medicare wants to help. HETS “returns the start date of the hospice period,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explains in a message to providers. “This start date is the date of the current Notice of Election (NOE).” Clarification: “For purposes of claims processing, the Common [...]
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