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Posting Date: 01/01/1970
Call Center Planned Outage Status
Call Center Planned Outage Offline Friday, 7/4/2025
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Posting Date: 03/22/2024
Hospice Certifying Physician Medicare Enrollment Information
Hospice Certifying Physician Medicare Enrollment Information Under CMS' current regulations, the hospice medical director or the physician member of the hospice interdisciplinary group (the “hospice physician”) and the attending physician (if [...]
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Posting Date: 05/14/2018
Hospice Claim Reporting Requirements for Attending and Certifying Physicians
Hospice Claim Reporting Requirements for Attending and Certifying Physicians Under CMS' current guidelines, the hospice medical director or the hospice physician and the attending physician (if the beneficiary has one), must initially [...]
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Posting Date: 05/01/2018
Medical Policy Contact Information
Medical Policy Contact Information Please Note: General inquiries related to Medicare coverage policies, including clinical issues, drugs, radiopharmaceuticals, local and national coverage determinations, billing and reimbursement must be [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2024
17729 and 17730 Hospice Claim Edits for Certifying Physicians
17729 and 17730 Hospice Claim Edits for Certifying Physicians Effective for hospice claims with claim ‘From’ dates on or after 6/3/2024, new claim edits have been implemented per CR 13342 to enforce CMS’ rule to deny hospice claims if the name [...]
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Posting Date: 07/17/2024
Billing Hospice Transfers
Billing Hospice Transfers Once a beneficiary elects to receive care under the Medicare hospice benefit, he or she waives rights to Medicare payments for hospice care provided by any other hospice other than the one they have chosen/designated. [...]
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Hospice Notice of Election Termination/Revocation (Type of Bill 8xB)
Hospice Notice of Election Termination/Revocation (Type of Bill 8xB) Table of Contents Hospice Notice of Election Termination/Revocation Examples of NOTR Time Frames Reminders/Notes on the NOTR Correcting a Discharge Date on an [...]
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Posting Date: 12/20/2016
Hospice Room and Board Denials
Hospice Room and Board Denials Medicare does not pay the room and board fees for hospice beneficiaries that reside in a SNF or a nursing facility (NF), as these charges are statutorily excluded from Medicare coverage. However, these charges [...]
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