Home Health & Hospice Week

If you've been wondering how to bill for your hospice patients when they enter VA facilities, you're not alone. "Cahaba has recently received questions,and requests for clarification, regarding Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for both Veterans Administration (VA) and Medicare benefits, and are considering hospice care," regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA says in its January newsletter for providers. "If a duly eligible veteran, who had been receiving Medicare hospice services in his/her home, is admitted to a VA owned and operated inpatient facility, the beneficiary must revoke the Medicare hospice benefit," according to the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual. "Medicare is not allowed to pay for those services for which another federal entity is primary payer," it says. "Dually eligible veterans may elect to receive Medicare hospice services while residing in community nursing homes and state homes and have those services paid for under the Medicare hospice benefit, with the [...]