Hospice:
Limit Your Respite Care Billing To 5 Consecutive Days
Published on Fri Feb 14, 2014
Claims with respite care stretching more than 5 days will RTP starting this summer. Hospices are off the hook for vaccinations, but on the hook for respite care limitations, thanks to two new Medicare transmittals. Medicare regulations require that the program may not pay for more than five consecutive days of hospice inpatient care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]