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Heed HIS Coding Tip Offered By CMS
Make sure your orders back up your Hospice Item Set answers. So says a new “HIS coding tip of the quarter” from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“For treatment and medication items on the HIS (Items J2040, NO500, NO510, NO520), complete the item based on treatments for which the hospice has received orders,” CMS says in the tip, released in its latest quarterly HIS question-andanswer document. “Do not include a continued treatment unless the hospice received a new order to continue the treatment. Once an order is received by the hospice to continue a treatment, use the date the hospice received the order for the ‘date initiated’ items.”
A link to the quarterly Q&As is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-PatientAssessment-Instruments/Hospice-QualityReporting/Hospice-Item-Set-HIS.html.
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