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Register For Your Hospice Item Set Passwords
If you haven’t done much to prepare for HIS, you at least can register for your User IDs to submit your Hospice Item Set information — both of them. Hospice providers required to submit the HIS records starting July 1 must register for two separate user IDs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says — a CMSNet User ID and a QIES User ID. Also, each provider is allowed two CMSNet User IDs, which provide access to CMS’s private network where the QIES systems reside.
The CMSNet registration form is at — scroll down to the second link under “Hospice/IRF/Swing Bed/ LTCH.” You’ll receive two separate emails with your User ID and password, which you can use to install CMS’s Juniper communications software, then log into the CMS Network.
Eli's Hospice Insider
- Know Your Facts:
Reviewers May Target You With Your Own Claims Data
CMS puts long LOS, high live discharge rates under its microscope. Medicare is analyzing the [...] - Regulations:
Hospice Payment Reform Waits Another Year
Quality reporting, CAHPS also addressed at recent industry conference. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...] - Compliance:
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But closures are also taking place in the turbulent hospice environment. There’s a lot of [...] - Hospice News:
OIG Urges Congress To Require Proration Of DRGs When Patients Go To Hospice
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MAC Rejects More Than 2/3 Of Long-Stay Hospice Claims
Can your records back up the patient’s six-month prognosis? If you’re submitting hospice claims that [...] - Hospice News:
Register For Your Hospice Item Set Passwords
If you haven’t done much to prepare for HIS, you at least can register for [...] - Hospice News:
Infusion Pump Billing Sparks Claims Denials
If your hospice claims with infusion pump items are getting denied, you’re not alone. HHH [...] - Hospice News:
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Two top executives at now-shuttered Passages Hospice, plus the hospice itself, are facing Medicare fraud charges. [...] - Hospice News:
Hospice Owner Faces Nearly 15 Years In Prison
A former hospice owner convicted of Medicare fraud has drawn a whopping 14.5-year prison sentence. [...]
