Industry Notes:
New Hospice Claims Edit Targets Gap Billing
Published on Fri Feb 25, 2022
You may need to rethink your definition of ‘transfer.’ Official transfers of hospice patients may get less common under a new claims edit set to take effect in July. A patient can change hospices once per benefit period, but there is supposed to be no gap in care. That means the “’from date’ for the receiving hospice must be the [...]