Eli's Hospice Insider
Learn The Ins and Outs Of Hospice Diagnosis Coding
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Learn how to comply with diagnosis coding requirements.
You can receive vital diagnosis coding information from the comfort of your own office by signing up for the Eli-sponsored audioconference, Coding of Hospice Cases. Tues. Sept. 25, 1 p.m. ET. CMS has emphasized in its 2013 hospice wage index notice that hospices must be coding more than just the primary diagnosis (see story, Eli's Hospice Insider, Vol. 5 No. 9). Medicare's hospice Conditions of Participation require that the terminal illness and the co-morbidities impacting care must be coded, and CMS says it plans to use those codes to develop a potential case mix payment system for hospice. Non-compliance and sloppiness will hurt your future payment. Join coding guru Lisa Selman-Holman to learn the ins and outs of coding for hospice patients. For more information, go to www.audioeducator.com/codingof-hospice-cases.html or call 1-866-458-2965.
Note: To browse and register for Eli home care and hospice audioconferences, go to www.audioeducator.com and select the "home health" or "hospice" tabs in the top blue bar. Or call 1-866-458-2965. Sessions are available via recording or transcript after taking place.
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