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Avoid Hospice Claims Delays With MAC's Drug Reporting Tips

Published on Fri Dec 05, 2014

Medication reporting errors mess up hospice claims processing. Starting back in April, Medicare has re-quired mandatory drug reporting on hospice claims. But that requirement has been delaying hospices’ claims when they don’t report drugs correctly. Use the following pointers from CGS to avoid the cash flow crunch. Don’t use S codes: “HCPCS that begin with an ‘S’ (ex. S5502) are [...]
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