Industry Note:
Missing Diagnosis On NOE Will Result In Return
Published on Fri May 13, 2016
Starting this fall, a hospice Notice of Election missing a principal diagnosis will get kicked back to you. Now: “Currently, [NOEs] are being accepted without a principal diagnosis present,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in CR 9575. “Contractors report that this occurs on a high percentage of NOEs.” In October: Medicare systems will return NOEs submitted without [...]