Industry Notes:
Keep Certifying Physician Claims Edit Top Of Mind
The upcoming Medicare claims edit requiring hospice certifying physicians to be enrolled or validly opted out of the program appears to be on track for June 3 implementation. Reminder: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently bumped that date back a month, from May to June. That’s still the date, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA says in a May 13 post to its website. “The hospice certifying physician need to be enrolled/ opted-out at the time they make the certification or recertification of hospice care for a patient,” Palmetto reminds.
