RE: [MARKETING] [EXTERNAL] Inpatient Hospice Patients

The hospice unit can have a different license and a different provider number, allowing for separate coded episodes and payment….it also ‘may’ be simply designated as a physical location within your acute care Medical Surgical Facility and operating under that same acute care (inpatient ) license..
It depends upon how your facility is licensed by your state.

If you hospice is operating within your acute care facility, all of the expired cases are formulated in your Observed/Expected Mortality Ratio.

PE

Paul Evans, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS

Manager, Regional Clinical Documentation & Coding Integrity
Sutter West Bay
633 Folsom St., 7th Floor, Office 7-044
San Francisco, CA 94107
Cell: 415.412.9421

evanspx@sutterhealth.org


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