Ensuring Medicare Eligibility Key to Hospice Revenue Cycle Management

Challenged with the intricacies of insurance billing along with evolving policy changes and increasing regulatory scrutiny in recent years, ensuring patients’ Medicare eligibility has become vital for hospices’ bottom lines. Effective processes, valuable staff and external resources are some of the key components for providers to consider as they seek to avoid lost revenue associated with billing and documentation errors.

Maintaining an effective revenue cycle management process involves a hospice carefully determining and documenting a patient’s eligibility for the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

“Health care reimbursement can often be difficult,” said Matt Zaboltony, vice president of revenue cycle services at Pittsburgh-based health care software company Net Health, in webinar. “Ensuring Medicare eligibility as part of your hospice practice...