COPD Documentation/Coding Hospice 
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 30, 2023
He had COPD and depended on home oxygen. ” I documented those words in my progress note that day. He had declined hospice care until the end and would not even accept “do not resuscitate” status. I have to think that treatment could have made her life better if not longer. KS was a man in his early 80s.
PulmCCM
MARCH 11, 2024
About 544,000 99292 codes were billed to CMS in 2021, according to ACCP , reportedly stable at about 10% of the total bills. There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8% for likelier hospice discharge after automatic palliative care consultation. At about $100 per , they would be worth ~$54 million in total.
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