CMS Simplifies Hospice Vaccine Billing Effective October 2016

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued Change Request 9052/Transmittal 3503 which, effective October 1, 2016, allows hospices to bill Medicare for covered preventive vaccines (influenza virus, pneumococcal, and hepatitis B) directly on the institutional claim rather than requiring that they secure and maintain separate enrollment and bill vaccines as a…