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Medicare Cracks Down On Inpatient Hospital Billing For Hospice Patients

Published on Thu Nov 14, 2013

Your diagnosis coding will determine whether you pay for hospital care. CMS is taking the next step to turn up the heat on hospices that it views as shirking their bundling responsibilities under the benefit. Under a new Change Request, in April Medicare will "deny an inpatient hospital claim when the principal diagnosis on the inpatient claim matches one of [...]
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