Hospice News June 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently announced plans to launch a new audit that will focus on general inpatient hospice services.
Longer general inpatient hospice stays and high-cost issues are reasons for the audit, dubbed the “Audit of Selected, High-Risk Medicare Hospice General Inpatient Services,” according to OIG. The regulatory watchdog’s nationwide audit will concentrate on Medicare claims for hospice enrollees transferred to general inpatient care (GIP) settings following an acute hospitalization.
Through the audit, OIG will determine whether hospice providers that billed for general inpatient care complied with Medicare requirements.
“For this audit, we will focus on claims for enrollees who were transferred to GIP care immediately after an...
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