Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Cancel NOE When Previous Hospice Asks Or For Coding Mistakes, MAC Says

If you have an error on your hospice patient’s Notice of Election (NOE), you’ll have to cancel and resubmit it. That includes an incorrect diagnosis code, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA says in a new Job Aide, "Canceling a Hospice Notice of Election." For example: "Hospice XYZ submits an NOE with a transposed primary diagnosis code," Palmetto offers. "In [...]
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