The Billing Boys Tell All: Preparing to Succeed with Medicare and the Billers at Home (TH334)

Palliative Care (PC) programs are growing nationally. Once niche services well under the fiscal radar, many PC programs now have seven-figure budgets and a dozen or more clinicians. As programs cost more, sponsoring institutions' expectations for clinical revenue grow, leaving PC team members working longer hours to see more patients to help close the yawning budgetary gap. Most PC providers have become accustomed to basic billing and coding practices, but significant opportunities exist, even for seasoned clinicians and program leads, in the rapidly expanding array of billing revenue opportunities.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 25, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Christopher Jones, Phillip E. Rodgers Source Type: research