tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 16

Care Plan Oversight: Billing for CPO Requires Careful Planning

Every Minute Counts for Medicare CPO If your practice has lots of patients who go into home health or hospice care, then chances are your physicians are doing enough work to bill for Medicare's lucrative care plan oversight code, G0181 . Yet many practices avoid billing for care plan oversight because it requires too much finicky documentation of the doctor's activities. "I've got to admit that none of my doctors bill for it because they never kept track of it," says Christine Berger, coding expert at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis. It's especially difficult at an academic...

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