Eli's Hospice Insider provides news and analysis on Medicare hospice regulations and guidelines to help hospices address challenges in documentation, compliance, reimbursement, and care provision. It details common hospice risks and how the publication can help through real case examples, regulatory updates, billing best practices, and quality reporting requirements. The newsletter covers topics like GIP eligibility, HIS reporting, PEPPER reports, documentation, audits, and more to help hospices improve performance, education, and compliance.

1. Eli’s Hospice Insider

2. Eli’s Hospice Insider
News and analysis on reimbursement, regulations, finance, operations, & compliance
Is your agency struggling to keep up with constantly changing Medicare hospice guidelines? If
yes, it is time to rethink your knowledge base and remodel the business strategy
for your organization…

3. Challenges…
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• How to correctly document hospice eligibility and ensure best end-of-life care
• How to identify hospice’s risk areas and take action to strengthen compliance
• How to create documentation to support GIP level of care for hospice patients
• How to prepare for 2018 regulatory changes and their impact on the provision of care under the
Medicare Hospice Benefit
• How to utilize the hospice compare data to take your organization to the next level of growth
• How to train and keep your staff up-to-date
• How to reduce denials in claim process to get maximum reimbursement
• How to reduce billing errors in your claim process documentation
Is your hospice agency facing challenges like:

4. How Eli’s Hospice Insider can help?
• With Eli's Hospice Insider, our experts bring you the latest information about these and other
issues — including new quality data reporting requirements — so you can avoid reimbursement
reductions and low scores. Stay informed, compliant, and profitable.
• You will be able to drill down and identify poor performers and implement a strong education and
training program for your organization.
• You will be able to identify your hospice’s risk areas and take action to strengthen compliance in
those areas.
• Documentation is the key area in claim submission — with Eli’s Hospice Insider you will get real
case scenarios so that you can figure out how to correctly document for each and every medical
condition.

5. Topics covered in Eli’s Hospice Insider:
• Overview of the Medicare GIP hospice benefit
• Overview of the Hospice Quality Reporting program elements
• Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) background
• Requirement and changes in the HIS requirements
• PEPPER reports
• Types of valuable team education for compliance and performance
improvement
• Top diagnosis codes for hospice
• Medicare compliance news
• Identification of process or clinical issues
• Billing and coding how-tos
• Preview reports and next steps for compliance
• HIPAA compliance
• And more…

6. Some recent articles covered:
• Billing: Follow These Dos And Don'ts For Hospice Reform Payment Corrections
• Medical Review: Surprise: Targeted Probe & Educate Applies To You, Too
• Studies & Surveys: Hospice Use Saves Money, According To Recent Studies
• Hospice Notes: Live Discharge Rate Attention Dogs Hospices
• Hospice Notes: Ace Sequential Billing Requirements For Billing Success
• Hospice Notes: Medicare Termination Notices Hit Cyberspace
• Quality: Hospice Compare Launch Shows Lagging Scores For Pain Assessment
• Emergency Preparedness: Don't Get Caught Unprepared: Tap These Emergency Preparedness
Resources
• Fraud & Abuse: Hospice Fraud Case Takes Center Stage
• Documentation: Physician Documentation Questions Worry Hospices
• Assessment: There's No Rush On HEART, CMS Pledges In Rule
• And more…
•Billing: Follow These Dos And Don'ts For Hospice Reform Payment Corrections

7. Get Eli’s Hospice Insider today
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For just $199
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call 1-800-508-2582

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