Industry Note:
That U5181 Return You Think Is An Error May Be Legit
Published on Fri Dec 14, 2018
Beware an ongoing payment system glitch that could be hanging up your hospice claims — but don’t blame all your returned claims on the problem. Problem: “Some claims are incorrectly returning to provider (RTP) for reason code U5181, stating there are issues with occurrence code OC 27 (missing, incorrect date, outside the dates of service {DOS}, etc.),” reports HHH Medicare [...]