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Hospice Billing Compliance: The Latest PEPPER Updates

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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.

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Understanding the PEPPER Can Reduce Home Health and Skilled Nursing Audit Risks

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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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Diana Lee Guida Brown

Social Work Blog

Fittingly and true to her own final intention, Diana died peacefully at her Leonia, New Jersey home while receiving hospice care. 1 Fall 1978 and “A Model for Group Intervention with the Chronically Ill: Cystic Fibrosis and the Family” published both in Social Work and Pediatrics , Ruth B. She was 88 years old. Smith & Helen G.

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Do you fear dying?

Social Work Blog

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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