Home Health & Hospice Week
CMS Podcast Helps Docs With Hospice Billing Basics
You can help out physicians who refer hospice patients to your organization by pointing them to a new education tool from CMS.
In a recent six-minute podcast, "Hospice Related Services – Part B," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explains hospice basics, such as how physicians may bill Part B for services furnished to a hospice patients by using the GW and GV modifiers.
Pointer: "Be aware that a verbal revocation of benefits is NOT acceptable," CMS advises docs in the podcast. "The individual forfeits hospice coverage for any remaining days in that election period. A beneficiary may not designate an effective date of the revocation that is earlier than the date that the revocation is made."
A recording and transcript of the podcast are online at www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/MLN-Multimedia-Items/ICN908995-podcast.html — scroll down to links in the "Downloads" section.
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