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This commodity originally appeared in the November 2013 affair of LTC-SIR Advisor Newsletter, appear by the American Health Lawyers Association.
Hospices will accept until October 1, 2014, to ensure they accommodate their coding practices to accede with a “clarification” issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Casework (CMS) in its final FY2014 Auberge Wage Index and Acquittal Rate Update, appear in the Fed. Reg. on August 7, 2013.1 CMS’s policy, as clarified, is that the ICD-9 codes for “adult abortion to thrive” and “debility” are not to be acclimated as arch diagnoses on the auberge Medicare affirmation anatomy back a accompanying absolute assay has been accustomed or accustomed by the provider. Any claims submitted afterwards October 1, 2014 that accept decrepitude or developed abortion to beforehand as the arch assay will be alternate to the provider to resubmit with a added absolute arch assay coding.
CMS aboriginal gave apprehension of this description in the proposed aphorism for FY 2014, appear in the Federal Register on May 10, 2013 2. In accomplishing so, CMS asserted that this was not a new proposal. Rather, CMS adumbrated that this description was alone actuality constant with ICD-9-CM Coding Guidelines, which accommodate that “Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined Conditions,” including developed abortion to beforehand and debility, are not to be acclimated as arch diagnoses. 3
CMS’s action for this description allegedly was the changes in assay patterns over the years. At the alpha of the auberge account in 1983, the best frequently appear arch diagnoses for auberge were blight diagnoses. 4 Over time, non-cancer diagnoses accept become added frequently reported. In 2002, developed abortion to beforehand and decrepitude calm accounted for 9% of the top 20 arch diagnoses. Ten years later, these two diagnoses were the aboriginal and third best frequently appear diagnoses, accounting for 19% of the top 20. 5 They appropriately captured the absorption of CMS and beforehand to the description of policy.
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CMS’s primary absolution for this description was affair that the use of non-specific diagnoses of developed abortion to beforehand and debility, afterwards any added diagnoses, agency that Medicare auberge beneficiaries are not actuality thoroughly adjourned and therefor may not be accepting the abounding ambit of casework the Medicare Auberge account envisioned.
More significantly, CMS bidding its affair that use of a non-specific assay such as developed abortion to beforehand or decrepitude indicates that the “multiple comorbid conditions” that accompany these diagnoses may not be abundantly diagnosed, thereby depriving beneficiaries of an abreast compassionate of their action and of all the accessible options accessible to them. CMS believes this description will animate hospices to be “more advised about acclamation all of the beneficiary’s articular needs” as the end of activity approaches.
CMS acknowledges that, area a accommodating has assorted circumstantial conditions, no one condition, individually, may account the accommodating as terminally ill; however, the aggregate attendance of them and the accelerating attributes of some of them will accord to the terminal diagnosis. In such instances, CMS states that the physician should “select the action he or she feels is best accessory to the terminal prognosis, based on advice in the absolute assessment, added accordant analytic advice acknowledging all diagnoses, and his or her best analytic judgment.”
Commenters questioned CMS’s affair with diagnoses, back auberge accommodation is based on the terminal cast of a patient, and not on diagnosis. CMS accustomed that auberge accommodation is based on a terminal prognosis. However, CMS acicular to the requirements for certifications and recertifications – that analytic advice in the medical almanac charge abutment the medical prognosis, and that the physician accommodate a anecdotal of the analytic allegation acknowledging the terminal diagnosis. CMS adumbrated that it is not seeing the akin of abyss of assay advertisement as is adapted for the certifications and recertifications. Further, CMS declared that abounding hospices accept been coding “a distinct terminal diagnosis” back accommodation “should consistently accept been based on the terminal cast of the patient, and this cast would about absorb added than one diagnosis.”
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CMS additionally discussed what altitude are “related” against “unrelated” to the terminal affliction by commendation the 1983 action that “…hospices are adapted to accommodate around all the affliction that is bare by terminally ill patients.” CMS common that “unless there is bright affirmation that a action is different to the terminal prognosis, all casework would be advised related. It is additionally the albatross of the auberge physician to certificate why a patient’s medical need(s) would be different to the terminal prognosis.”
Many of the commenters on the proposed aphorism bidding affair that this description would absolute or prohibit admission to auberge affliction for abounding Medicare beneficiaries. CMS denied this assertion, acquainted that certifications for auberge accommodation are based on prognosis, not diagnosis, and are completed no added than 15 canicule above-mentioned to the alpha of the account period. Assay coding on the auberge affirmation anatomy is not done until afterwards the accommodating has been abreast of his or her choices and accustomed into hospice. Similarly, CMS alone comments adage that this description was a change of advantage that should go through the National Advantage Determination process. CMS denied it was authoritative any changes in advantage or accommodation behavior but alone authoritative a coding description “to appeal added accuracy and detail on the auberge claims to reflect a complete account of the Medicare auberge citizenry and the auberge casework rendered.”
CMS accurate its accommodation with an assay assuming that, in 2012, for those beneficiaries with developed abortion to beforehand or decrepitude appear as the arch auberge assay with no accessory diagnosis, over 50% of them had seven or added abiding conditions, and 75% of them had four or added abiding conditions. CMS acclaimed that abounding of these abiding altitude are additionally terminal conditions, or accessory to the terminal prognosis. If assorted altitude are actuality treated, or if medications accept been assigned to amusement or administer them, again CMS said it would be inappropriate to use developed abortion to beforehand or decrepitude as a assumption diagnosis.
As added justification, CMS adumbrated that it needs added complete assay advice on claims as it moves advanced with auberge acquittal reform. Although the absolute agreement of auberge acquittal ameliorate accept not yet been proposed, CMS’s added actual affair is the trend that some hospice-related drugs acclimated for auberge patients are actuality answerable to Medicare Part D, rather than actuality covered beneath the arranged acquittal of the auberge benefit, causing added and inappropriate payments to be made. For example, CMS acicular out that about 15 percent of auberge patients in 2010 accustomed analgesic prescriptions through Part D; in absolute Medicare auberge beneficiaries receives prescriptions beneath Part D accretion over $350,000,000. This echoes the apropos bidding in the OIG Report “Medicare Could be Paying Twice for Prescription Drugs for Beneficiaries in Hospice.”
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In acknowledgment to comments pointing out that abounding Local Advantage Determinations (LCDs) by Home Health and Auberge Medicare Administrative Contractors acceptable the use of developed abortion to beforehand or decrepitude as a primary diagnoses, CMS said it would be alive with those contractors to ensure all LCDs will reflect these coding clarifications. CMS additionally acclaimed that LCDs are acclimated to actuate accommodation for auberge services, and not to actuate the adapted diagnoses codes on auberge claims.
Although acquainted that this description would be a cogent change for abounding hospices, CMS denied that this description would crave hospices to appoint able coders and actualize a banking burden. CMS said the description was fabricated to abetment hospices in acknowledging with longstanding coding action that these two diagnoses should be appear as arch diagnoses, and acicular the hospices to several coding assets on the CMS website to abetment them. CMS acclaimed that the cardboard UC-04 forms accept consistently had amplitude to account up to 17 added assay fields, and the cyberbanking affirmation anatomy has up to 24 added assay fields.
One absolute aftereffect of the rulemaking action was CMS’s accommodation to adjournment the able date of this clarification. It was cryptic in the proposed aphorism whether this action description would be activated retrospectively to claims already submitted, or whether it would accept -to-be effect. Indeed, some Medicare contractors began abiding claims to providers above-mentioned to the end of the animadversion period. In the final rule, alike admitting it characterized its statements about abortion to beforehand and decrepitude as a clarification, CMS accustomed that this description may be a “paradigm shift” for some hospices in the way they accept coded claims. CMS accordingly fabricated the description able for claims anachronous on or afterwards October 1, 2014. As of that date, any claims submitted with developed abortion to beforehand or decrepitude as the arch assay will be alternate to the provider for added absolute coding of the arch and added diagnoses. CMS additionally expects, however, that hospices will “transition anon to added anxious coding practices in beforehand of this able date.
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1 78 Fed. Reg. 48234.2 78 Fed. Reg. 27823.3Id. at 27832.4Id.at 27831.5Id. at 27829.6 78 Fed. Reg. at 482447Id.8Id. at 48247.9Id. at 48248.10Id. at 48251.11Id. at 48252.12Id. at 48244.13Id. at 4824514Id. See additionally altercation of cachet of auberge acquittal ameliorate at 78 Fed. Reg. 48271-75.15Id. at 48245-46. See OIG Report A-06-10-00059, June 2012, accessible at http://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region6/61000059.pdf.16Id. at 48243.17Id. at 48247.18Id. at 48242.19Id. at 48250.20Id.21Id.at 48246.22Id.23Id. at 48252.
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