Increased regulatory and clinical oversight is needed to address common billing and documentation errors related to hospice general inpatient care, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Inaccurate billing was among the driving forces behind the OIG’s recently announced nationwide audit of general inpatient hospice services (GIP), the regulatory watchdog stated. Roughly one-third of Medicare claims for general inpatient hospice services (GIP) are billed in error, the OIG indicated. Common errors include billing for GIP services when hospice patients did not need this level of care.
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Source: https://hospicenews.com/2023/07/11/oigs-hospice-gip-audit-fueled-by-inappropriate-billing-nearly-one-third-of-claims-have-errors