Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes

• Hospice patients who revoke the hospice benefit don't have to wait any prescribed amount of time before re-electing it, regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA says in its May newsletter to providers. "Upon revoking the election of Medicare coverage of hospice care for a particular election period, an individual resumes Medicare coverage of the benefits waived when hospice care was elected," CMS says in the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. "An individual may at any time elect to receive hospice coverage." "Therefore, if the patient/family revokes the hospice benefit, they can re-elect at any time, as long as it is not the same day as the revocation," Cahaba explains in the newsletter. Of course, the patient must also meet the hospice coverage criteria.
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