RN, LPN G Codes for Hospice Won’t be Out for a While
Hospices have a lot to do to get up to speed with new billing rules that will take effect Jan. 1, but they’ll have to wait a bit longer to cover all the details.
Why? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hoped to have billing instructions for hospice payment reform issued shortly after the 2016 final rule came out. “We hit a snag and could not issue them,” explained CMS’s Wil Gehne in the Aug. 12 Open Door Forum for...
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