Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond

COVID-19 Hospice How-To Series | The Results Are In: More Wins for Hospices in HIS Appeals

Episode Summary

COVID-19 remained a substantial obstacle to hospices’ efforts to comply with quality data reporting obligations in 2021. Those challenges resulted in a number of hospices receiving notices of a 2% Medicare payment reduction in July 2022. We appealed those notices and won! In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki and Jacob Harris talk about those appeals, the keys to success and what to expect next year.

Episode Notes

COVID-19 remained a substantial obstacle to hospices’ efforts to comply with quality data reporting obligations in 2021. Those challenges resulted in a number of hospices receiving notices of a 2% Medicare payment reduction in July 2022. We appealed those notices and won! In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki and Jacob Harris talk about those appeals, the keys to success and what to expect next year.