Care for a Condition Other than Your Terminal Illness
You should continue to use Original Medicare to get care for any health care needs that aren’t related to your terminal illness. You may be able to get this care from the hospice medical team doctor or from your own doctor. The hospice medical team determines whether any other medical care you need is or isn’t related to your terminal illness so it won’t affect your care under the hospice benefit.
You must pay the deductible and coinsurance amounts for all Medicare-covered services. You must also continue to pay Medicare premiums, if necessary.
For more information about Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage Plans, and other Medicare health plans, look in your copy of the “Medicare & You” handbook mailed to every Medicare household in the fall. If you don’t have the “Medicare & You” handbook, you can view it by visiting www.medicare.gov/Publications/Pubs/pdf/10050.pdf.
Medicare hospice benefit. How to identify and handling the denial. Usage of correct CPT code and Modifiers. Using correct form,ICD code
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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