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Transfer Hospice Patients Get Double HIS

Published on Fri Sep 19, 2014

Transfer patients get a double helping of data under the new Hospice Item Set system. “Since a HIS-Admission and a HIS-Dis-charge must be completed for each patient admission (not each patient admitted) … both hospices are responsible for completing and submitting a HIS-Admission and a HIS-Discharge for [a transfer] pa-tient,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Ser-vices says in its [...]
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