Home Health & Hospice Week

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Strip These Drugs From Hospice Claims.Will hospices' drug costs go underreported?

Hospices’ drug costs may go underreported, thanks to a claims system glitch. The problem: In April 2014, CMS required hospices to start reporting drugs on their claims. But “a Common Working File (CWF) edit restricts the allowable types of bill (TOB) for certain anti-cancer and anti-emetic drugs,” CMS notes in MLN Matters article 9255. “This edit does not include the [...]
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