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Know -- And Report -- Facility NPIs When Your Hospice Patients Aren't At Home

Published on Thu Mar 05, 2015

If Reason Code 34952 errors are killing your hospice claims, you’re not alone. Medicare Administrative Contractor “CGS has identified reason code 34952 as one of the top Claim Submission Error (CSE) errors,” it says on its website. “The reason code 34952 indicates that a service facility National Provider Identifier (NPI) is required on the claim, but was not reported.”   [...]
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