Home Health & Hospice Week

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Do You Know What Happened To Your Patient? Make Sure Your Coding Says So

And why you’re getting more FTF-related denials. If you’re mixing up your patient status codes, your Medicare Administrative Contractor will be none too happy. And according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, hospices aren’t reporting a patient’s death properly using patient status codes on claims. Specifically, CMS identified inaccurate reporting of a patient’s death using the patient status [...]
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