Home Health & Hospice Week

Diagnosis Coding:

Strike Nearly 40 Dx Codes Off Your List For Hospice Claims

Debility, Adult Failure To Thrive, Dementia codes and more will get your claim kicked back to you under new edits. You have only about three short weeks to rid your hospice claims of banned diagnoses, or you’ll pay the price in reduced cash flow. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized plans to ban Debility (799.3, 780.79/R53.81) and Adult [...]
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