Eli's Hospice Insider
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Beware Claiming Therapy As Unrelated To Hospice
Published on Tue Mar 13, 2012 
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Reviewers are cracking down on what's considered unrelated to the terminal diagnosis. Question:
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"Although it is allowable to provide Part B therapy to hospice patients, I think it's very difficult to meet the Medicare regulatory requirements outside the hospice benefit," says attorney Roshunda Drummond-Dye with the American Physical Therapy Association.Consultant
Beth Carpenter says "it's increasingly become hard for medical reviewers who review charts to believe everything isn't related to the hospice diagnosis. For example, if the person has cancer metastasis and breaks a bone, the medical reviewer will say the fracture is related to the medication the person is receiving or the hospice diagnosis," adds Carpenter, with Beth Carpenter and Associates in Lake Barrington, Ill.Other Articles in this issue of
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