Home Health & Hospice Week

The upcoming Medicare claims edit requiring hospice certifying physicians to be enrolled or validly opted out of the program appears to be on track for June 3 implementation.

Reminder: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently bumped that date back a month, from May to June. That’s still the date, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA says in a May 13 post to its website.

“The hospice certifying physician need to be enrolled/ opted-out at the time they make the certification or recertification of hospice care for a patient,” Palmetto reminds.