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Learn These Hospice Payment Reduction Details
Published on Wed Apr 22, 2015
If you’re wondering exactly how the process will work when CMS docks your pay for failing to submit hospice quality information (i.e., Hospice Item Set data), now you know.
CMS has outlined the steps in the process in CR 9091 released last month at www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Transmittals/Downloads/R39QRI.pdf.
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