Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

That U5181 Return You Think Is An Error May Be Legit

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 [...]
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