FY2023 Hospice PEPPER Updates: Mitigating Payment-Related Scrutiny During PEPPER Pause

Course overview

The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is the best tool for hospices to identify potential areas of payment vulnerability and mitigate CMS contractor audit risk. With CMS' recent pause in releasing the FY2023 PEPPER Report, hospice providers must now rely on other measures to identify and mitigate payment-related risk since CMS contractor audits are hospice providers greatest financial risk. This course provides hospice administrators and nurses with knowledge of how to avoid audits despite the hospice PEPPER pause.