Hospice Claims Incorrectly Returned to Provider

Some hospices are seeing claims Return to Provider (RTP) due to a problem with the attending physician’s National Provider Identifier (NPI).  Transmittal 11633/Change Request (CR) 12889 which instructs MACs to have an edit that validates the attending physician’s NPI includes hospice claims and should not.  The CR instructs MACs to validate the NPI in the Attending…