Partial Episode Payment (PEP) adjustments are made to home health claims when readmissions or transfers occur within 60 days of the start of care. At the start of the prospective payment system (PPS) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) applied claim edits that would PEP any episode where a subsequent episode overlapped the…
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