- Medicare Hospice Quick Reference Sheet
- Hospice Certifying Physician Medicare Enrollment Information
- Hospice Notice of Election Termination/Revocation
- Hospice Room and Board Denials
- Professional Services During a Patient Hospice Election
- Tips to Facilitate the Change of Ownership Process
- Service Intensity Add-on Payment
- Counting 60-Day Election Periods
- Untimely Filed Notice of Election Circumstance Exception: Medicare Beneficiary Is Granted Retroactive Medicare Entitlement
- Hospice Billing Codes Chart
- Appropriate Use of Occurrence Code 27 and Occurrence Span Code 77
- Avoiding Reason Code U5181: Appropriate Use of Occurrence Code 27/Occurrence Span Code 77
- Hospice Notice of Change of Ownership
- Filing an Electronic Notice of Change of Ownership (TOB 8XE)
- Hospice Change of Ownership
- Filing an Electronic Notice of Cancelation (Type of Bill 8XD)
- Filing an Appeal for Claims Rejected for an Untimely Hospice Notice of Election
- Filing an Electronic Notice of Transfer (Type of Bill 8XC)
- Counting 60-Day Election Periods - Leap Year
- Hospice Site of Service Codes
- Billing Hospice Physician, Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Services (Related To Terminal Diagnosis)
- Correcting Hospice Claims Sequentially to Avoid Reason Code U5181
- Common Working File System Edit F5052 and M5052
- Hospice Visit Reporting
- The Medicare Hospice Benefit: Effects on Other Provider Types
- Counting 90-Day Election Periods - Leap Year
- Reporting Hospice Discharges, Revocations and Transfers
- Filing an Electronic Notice of Termination-Revocation of Election (Type of Bill 8XB)
- Avoiding Reason Code 7C625: Appropriate Use of Remarks on Final Hospice Claims
- Notice of Election: Timely Filing of Hospice Elections
- Hospice Claim Submission Job Aid
- Direct Mailing Notification to Hospice Providers Regarding the Hospice Benefit Component, VBID Model, Participating MAOs
- Counting 90-Day Election Periods
- Hospice Quality Reporting Program
- Filing an Electronic Notice of Election (Type of Bill 8XA)
- Hospice Prescription Drug and Infusion Pump Reporting
- Hospice Caps Job Aid
- Value-Based Insurance Design Model Hospice Benefit Component Overview
- Documentation for Hospice Transfers
- Hospice Billing Instructions for Influenza, Pneumococcal and Hepatitis B Vaccines
- Appropriate Use of Condition Code 85
- How to Correct/Avoid Reason Code U5150
- General Inpatient Check Off List
- Hospice Transfers Job Aid
- Medicare Two Tier Routine Home Care Payment Rate
- Canceling a Hospice Notice of Election
- Hospice Pricer Tool Quick Reference Tool
- How to Bill When the Hospice Face-to-Face is Late from a Previous Benefit Period
- Site of Service Codes for Continuous Home Care and General Inpatient Care Level of Service
- Hospice Payment Rates
- Billing Medicare for a Denial - Condition Code 21
- Reminder on Deleting Revenue Code Line(s) in the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry System
Hospice Quality Reporting Program
Along with the other MACs, National Government Services has received several requests from new hospice providers, as well as national and state hospice associations, regarding training and assistance for new hospice agencies.
New hospice agencies must report quality data or be subject to a 4% current payment penalty. The following information on the CMS website regarding quality reporting is available 24/7, 365 days a year.
CMS offers support for new and existing hospice providers with topics such as setting up a new provider profile for submission of hospice quality data, performing patient assessments and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data:
- The Hospice Quality Reporting Program
- The Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements and Best Practices
- The Hospice Quality Reporting Program Announcements and Spotlight
- Hospice Public Reporting: Background and Announcements
Within these links, you will find that CMS offers trainings, best practices, public reporting, spotlight information and other useful information developed to decrease provider burden, increase knowledge and provide a smooth transition for new Medicare-certified hospice providers learning the required processes and policies of the HQRP program.
Posted 3/18/2022