Internal Medicine Coding Alert
Hospice Care
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Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the box below for the answer. Question: How should I bill for hospice care? The doctors give us hospital charges, but Medicare denies payment stating that the service is hospice care and has to be billed as such. We have never billed for this in our practice. What codes are used for this type of billing?
Michigan Subscriber
If your hospice patient is in a private home, use the home visit codes 99341-99350.
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