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The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report, or PEPPER, contains valuable information to help your hospice organization identify billing issues and prevent improper payment audits. The provider-specific PEPPER analyzes Medicare data and statistics from discharges and services compared with every hospice nationwide.
You can look at the PEPPER website’s user guide to see all target areas and a list of potential interventions for each. This report can help organizations identify potential overpayments as well as potential underpayments. The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities. Home health agencies.
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A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Treating health anxiety is done through a range of cognitive and behavioral interventions, Chesworth says. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day.
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