Hospice LOC Report

The Hospice LOC Report generates Per Diem charges and Service Intensity Add On (SIA) amounts and helps the hospice agency confirm the correct Levels of Care (LOC) and facility information are entered for the patients prior to running Billing Audits and claims. It can be run for the Exceptions Found Report Type to identify patients needing corrections in order to meet Medicare billing requirements. Failure messages are presented in red to alert for invalid or missing information as long as the corresponding Report Detail option is checked (Patients, Diag/Cert, Location and/or Charge Detail). View the Hospice LOC Report Guide for more detailed information.


Go to Charge > Hospice LOC Report.

 
Report Sequence: Select to sequence the report by Patient or by Level of Care (LOC)

Selection Type: Select All Records or individual Patients/Units/Insurances/Financial Classes. If a specific insurance is not selected a "Hospice Insurance Type" must be selected.

Report Detail: Select Patient, Diag/Cert, Location, and/or Charge. (recommend to leave all checked)

Diag/Cert Detail: Always check this option when checking for Exceptions. If checked the certification From/To date will show along with the first 3 diagnosis codes from the 485.  The NOE and Benefit Start dates will show if entered in Patient>Admit> Add'l-Dates tab and the NOE date will be displayed in red if the NOE was late.  If an invalid primary diagnosis was used on the 485, it will show a warning message in red.

Charge Detail: Always check this option when checking for Exceptions. If checked the report will provide warnings if conditions for Continuous Care were not met. (Note: when Charge Detail is selected the report will page break on Patient or LOC, dependent on sequence selected).

Billing Period: Enter the month or select "Custom" to enter a specific date range for evaluation.

Hospice Insurance Type: Select the Insurance Type assigned to the Hospice Insurance(s)

Report Type:

All Patients: Check to include all patients including those with exceptions.

Exceptions Only: Check to show only print patients with exceptions (shown in red on report).

Ready to Bill: Select to identify patients who are ready for a Billing Audit. 

Export Report: Choose to create an XLS type file that  can be edited in Excel.

Create/Fix LOC Charges: This option is enabled when the Report Type is set to 'All Records'. When selected, the program performs the auto-creation of the Level of Care Charges (this option can be used in place of the Auto Charge Generation>Level of Care charge creation routine for payers that are set to the Hospice Bill Method in Insurance set-up).

Level Of Care: Choose all levels or choose one LOC 

Unit/Financial Class: Choose All or select specific Unit or Financial Class (Unit/Financial Class drop-down selections flip dependent upon which is chosen as a Selection Type).

Bill Audit button: This button will appear after previewing/printing a Ready To Bill Report. The link will take the user to the Billing Audit menu and the selections and patients that appeared on Billing Pre-Audit Report as "Ready To Bill" will be pre-selected in the Specific Incudes tab (patients can then be removed from this tab if desired).

Note: The patient's Benefit Start Date and Revoke Days as entered in the Patient>Admit>Add'l Data Tab are used to determine when Late Routine Day calculation begins.

More Options Tab:


Additional Reporting Options:

Only Patients with Missing LOC: Check to produce a list of patients missing Levels of Care

Only Discharged Patients: Check to report only patients discharged within the Billing Period selected.

Only Patients Admitted in Select Month: Check the box to only include patients that were admitted with in the report date range.

Only Evaluate Primary Insurance: Check to only include patients whose primary insurance is the selected Insurance/Hospice Insurance Type.

Show Not-Billed Amounts: If selected, shows a breakout of Actual-Bill-Amt (Per Diem amount billed) and Not-Bill-Amt (Per Diem amount not billed) on the Grand Totals page of the report. Designed for agencies using a Custom Date range to determine amounts not billed.

Only Patients with Late/Missing NOE: If checked, will show only patients whose NOE Date is more than 6 days after the patient's Admit Date or is blank. Used to help track patients whose NOE was submitted late and may need an exception request or whose NOE was not submitted yet.

Only Patients w/Visits Last 3 Days of Life: Select to produce a report of deceased patients receiving Routine service that have a Length of Stay of at least 3 days. Patients without RN or MSW visits on at least 2 of the 3 days prior to their date of death will be listed with an exception 'HVLDL missing 2 RN/MSS' and will not be included in the HVLDL% listed in the Grand Total of the report. This option is only enabled when 'Patient' Sequence and 'All Records' Report Type are selected.

Fail if Prior Month Bill Not Paid: Check for a claim to appear on the Exceptions Found report instead of Bills Ready if any prior month's claim does not have a payment posted.

Fail Periods if Not All Docs Received: Check this option for an exception to be generated if any document on the Patient file Docs tab with an Effective Date in the billing month is missing the Received Date.

Fail if UnVerified Billable Visits Found: Defaults to checked (Report Groups saves last selection) to show an exception message for billable charges that are not marked Complete/Verified.

Fail if Non-Billable Chgs Found: if checked will show an exception message if non-billable charge(s) found. 

Fail if Insurance Not Hospice Bill Method: Check to show a failure on the report indicating the patient's insurance is not setup for Hospice Bill Method in Entity Maintenance. Previously billed patients will also be included.

Sub-Report Options:

No Sub-Reports: When selected, none of the additional report detail from options below will be included.

Hospice CAP Reporting: Select to include CAP amounts based on patient stays with your agency. CAP information will appear at the end of the report in the Grand Totals section. When chosen, the fiscal year dates must be selected in the Custom Date Selection.

Locations of Care: Select to include a summary on the last page of the report to show by Locations of Care a Days and Patient count by Q-Code. Provides an unduplicated patient count by their first Location of Care in the period.

Clinical Group Totals: Select to include a diagnosis clinical group breakout at the end of the report for patient counts - days, patients, unduplicated patients, deaths and live discharges by location. (used for Maryland Hospice State Survey, see examples below).

Show Sub-Report Detail: Check to show patient or institute detail lines for the Sub-Report option chosen above.

LOC Employee: This field is enabled when 'Create/Fix LOC Charges" is selected. Choose the LOC employee (ex. Nurse, Test) from the drop-down.

LOC Custom Date Detail: available if report Sequence is LOC and Custom Date range specified. Shows detailed patient information that make up report totals when Report Detail doesn't have Patients selected..

Sample Hospice LOC Report:

 
Note, the QCode Info at the end of the report shows total number of days in the reporting period by Q-Code type and the Pats column is a duplicated patient count (patients counted once for each Q Code type they were under). Patients are only included in the Un-Dup counts for their location for their first admission in the reporting period. When the report is run for a specific Level of Care (ex. Routine), the patient will show in the Patient counts for other levels of care they had during the reporting period, but will only be included in the Un-Dup count for the level they received at the time of admission. Death and Live-Disch counts are listed for the Location the patient resided at the time of death/discharge.

"Show Location of Care Totals" example:



"Show Clinical Group Totals" example: