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Beware New Hospice Denial Codes Indicating NOE-Delaying ICD-9, ICD-10 Problems

Published on Fri Jul 24, 2015

Get to know three new reason codes that will point the way to diagnosis coding troubles on your hospice claims — and could lead to missed deadlines for NOEs. “New hospice reason codes were implemented with the July 2015 system release to ensure appropriate diagnosis codes are submitted on billing transactions with the types of bill (TOBs) 8XA – 8XE [...]
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