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Hospice Claims With 6+ Consecutive Respite Days Kicked Back Starting July 1

Published on Fri Jun 20, 2014

Don’t forget: CMS will start enforcing Medicare’s five-day respite care limit for hospice patients July 1. Reminder: Medicare regulations limit payment to five consecutive days of hospice inpatient care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser-vices said in Feb. 5 Change Request 8569 (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXIII, No. 7). “Currently, Medicare systems do not provide standard editing to enforce [...]
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