The core of most hospice audits has been, and continues to be, whether the medical record supports the patient’s hospice eligibility. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently started mailing letters inviting physicians to one-on-one training sessions about the Medicare hospice benefit. In this.
Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) audits are on the rise, and the UPICs are embracing the full array of enforcement tools at their disposal. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s.
In this era of disruption and market consolidation, the talk of the town is how hospices can make strategic pivots to expand their geography, diversify the scope of their services to.
As audit activity escalates, hospices are getting increasingly familiar with the alphabet soup of audits and auditors, including OIG, UPIC, CMS, CPI, SMRC, MAC, TPE and more..