Eli's Hospice Insider

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Learn The Ins and Outs Of Hospice Diagnosis Coding

Learn how to comply with diagnosis coding requirements.

You can receive vital diagnosis coding information from the comfort of your own office by signing up for the Eli-sponsored audioconference, Coding of Hospice Cases. Tues. Sept. 25, 1 p.m. ET. CMS has emphasized in its 2013 hospice wage index notice that hospices must be coding more than just the primary diagnosis (see story, Eli's Hospice Insider, Vol. 5 No. 9). Medicare's hospice Conditions of Participation require that the terminal illness and the co-morbidities impacting care must be coded, and CMS says it plans to use those codes to develop a potential case mix payment system for hospice. Non-compliance and sloppiness will hurt your future payment. Join coding guru Lisa Selman-Holman to learn the ins and outs of coding for hospice patients. For more information, go to www.audioeducator.com/codingof-hospice-cases.html or call 1-866-458-2965.

Note: To browse and register for Eli home care and hospice audioconferences, go to www.audioeducator.com and select the "home health" or "hospice" tabs in the top blue bar. Or call 1-866-458-2965. Sessions are available via recording or transcript after taking place.

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