Heed Caution: Takeaways From the OIG’s Advance Care Planning Report
Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond
English - March 29, 2023 17:42 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBEntrepreneurship Business healthcare palliative care hospice law hospice Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported in November 2022 that many providers are not complying with Medicare’s billing rules for advance care planning services. In large part, the OIG’s findings centered around providers failing to document separately for time spent on advance care planning versus time spent on concurrent services provided during the same patient visit. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske, Andrew Brenton, and Zaina Niles break down the OIG report and what the key takeaways are for hospices.