CMS shifts Hospice Vaccine Payment Basis to AWP, Retroactive to Oct. 1, 2016

Beginning October 1, 2016, hospices were permitted to begin billing preventive vaccines using the institutional claim (for additional information, go here).  In the interest of time, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) set the payment basis at “reasonable cost”, with the ultimate intention of shifting the payment basis to 95% of average wholesale…