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Hospice News:
Longstanding Hospice Claims Glitch Fixed
Published on Tue Jan 17, 2012
You can finally resume inputting the certifying hospice physician's NPI and name in the "OTH PHYS" field on the hospice Notice of Election. A claims system glitch had prevented hospices from accessing the field since spring.
"This issue has been fixed," HHH MAC subcontractor National Government Services says in a Dec. 14 e-mail to providers. "Providers should discontinue the workaround." The workaround instructed hospices to leave the OTH PHYS field blank on NOEs.
Remember: You were never supposed to leave the NOE field blank on hospice claims, only on NOEs, contractors remind hospices.
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