Improving Documentation to Support Hospice Claims

During the last 3-5 years, Hospice has been the support of the Medicare Administrative Contractors. More hospice companies lose a lot of dollars because of claims that were denied in the ADR procedure. The hospice business is not familiar with this kind of appraisal of the claim. Zone Program Integrity Contractors are not with standing getting more into the round of checking on the hospice claim with expanding occasions of mass refusals because of a basic shortage of quality documentation and assessment of the clinical record. This course will talk about a few of the top hospice detail reasons and approaches to avoid this in your agency with guaranteed documentation.

Background of the topic:

In spite of the fact that the documentation has not altered much in hospice, the assessment by the MAC's has changed a considerable amount. This is a lesson on backpedaling to the rudiments of hospice documentation.

Why should you attend?

• Documentation is the fundamental reason for shielding the hospice claim, yet such a variety of hospice organizations are going under expanded examination for not indicating enough drop in the medical record.
• Hospices are utilizing all the wrong terms and INCONSISTENCIES implies dollars lost by the agency.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Discuss the main 5 denials across the MAC's 
• Review the "back to basics" documentation models for admitting and recertifying hospice patients
• Define approaches to analyze your chart so as to get any potential dangers in the documentation
• List the great, better, and most ideal approaches to document against the terminal diagnosis.

Who will benefit:

• Field staff
• Administrators
• Quality Assurance Managers
• Clinical Managers