Regulations:
Hospice Final Rule Seems To Give Thumbs Up To Electronic Signatures
Published on Fri Aug 07, 2020
More good news: Contractors can’t trigger the condition for payment, only patients. There’s a lot to weigh hospices down in the latest payment rule, but there’s also some good news. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued “no specific guidance addressing beneficiary (or representative) electronic signatures on the hospice election statement,” CMS acknowledges in the 2021 final rule [...]