Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Get Patient Status Codes Right Following HH Patient Deaths

Is your home health agency using the correct patient status code on claims when the patient dies? "Some home health claims are being submitted with the incorrect patient status code (FL 17) of 40, 41 or 42 to report the patient’s death," HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS says in its February newsletter for home care providers. "These codes are only [...]
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