tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 10

Hospice: Watch Out for Regulatory and Compliance Hot Spots

Will your documentation pass muster? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outlines plans for some big changes in the proposed rule for 2017 hospice payment. Chief among them are new quality measures and a new OASIS-like assessment tool. Good news: Some of the big hospice data points CMS and its contractors are tracking have gone down, points out Judi Lund Person with the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. For example, these figures have all decreased: percentage of claims with only one diagnosis; non-hospice spending for hospice patients; Part D spending on drugs for hospice patients; and...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.


Keep pace with evolving Medicare regulations — and onboard your team — with timely analysis of critical updates interpreted in an easy-to-follow, easy-to-apply format. Your subscription to TCI's Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement Alert will equip you to navigate code and guideline changes, CCI edits, and revisions to modifiers, payer policies, the fee schedule, OIG target areas, and more.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 4200 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2003 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.