tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 40

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Medicare may not pay for discharge planning when a hospice patient is no longer terminally ill -- but you'll have to."Once it is determined that the patient is no longer terminally ill, the patient is no longer eligible to receive the Medicare hospice benefit," CMS says in a response to a question about whether a hospice can keep a patient on the hospice benefit while completing discharge planning. "In such instances, the hospice must discharge the patient from the Medicare hospice benefit."But hospices are still left holding the bag for the discharge planning. "Our regulations ... require...

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