Previously, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Matters® article, SE17014 (https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNmattersArticles/downloads/SE17014.pdf).  This article instructed hospices to utilize a “workaround” under which a hospice that received a transfer patient reports the benefit period start date as the admission date on claims. This was necessary to ensure the days…