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New Nursing G Codes Finally Released For Hospice Reform

Published on Fri Oct 23, 2015

Surprise: HHAs must use them too. If you thought hospice payment reform only affects hospices, think again. In order to facilitate Service-Intensity Addon payments in the last seven days of a patient’s life, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued two new nursing G codes to replace the current single G-code of G0154 for “Direct skilled nursing services [...]
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