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Regulations:

Prepare For Review Focus On Patient Eligibility

Published on Fri May 09, 2014

HIS, CAHPS to make your load heavier soon. Medicare may not want to appear to be penalizing hospices when patients don’t die fast enough, but that doesn’t mean stronger scrutiny of eligibility is off the table. A hospice patient’s prognosis and eligibility for the hospice benefit is up to the physician’s clinical judgment, the Centers for Medicare & Medi-caid Services [...]
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