Providing Vaccines to Hospice Beneficiaries

In a Change Request (CR 8098) issued May 3, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicated that, effective October 1, 2013 – for implementation on October 7, 2013 – Medicare systems will prevent non-hospice providers from providing vaccines to hospice patients. While a hospice may provide influenza, pneumococcal, and hepatitis B vaccines…