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New Face-To-Face Code Solves Hospice Billing Problems

Published on Fri Jan 08, 2016

A new face-to-face-related billing code could ease your hospice billing headaches when the F2F encounter is late. Problem: Currently, if a hospice misses the F2F date and dates are denied, “the partially-denied hospice claim does not cause Original Medicare systems to post a revocation date on the beneficiary’s hospice benefit period,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in [...]
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