Update: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for skilled nursing facilities to submit information for the required off-cycle revalidation to May 1, 2025, regardless of when the facility...more
On September 6, 2024, CMS released revised guidance regarding the process by which rural hospitals and outpatient facilities can participate in Medicare as a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) rather than a Critical Access...more
Following an implementation delay during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), on August 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated Medicare hospital claims edits that will return certain...more
In late January 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two updates relevant to provider and supplier organizations enrolled in Medicare: (1) a redesign to the Provider Enrollment, Chain and...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires Medicare providers and suppliers to keep their enrollment information up to date at all times. Changes in this information can affect claims processing, payment...more
On July 15, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule to update the payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient...more
On March 24, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a delay until further notice to the activation of systematic validation edits for OPPS providers with multiple locations. After multiple prior...more
A Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) recently sent letters to some Medicare participating hospitals asking them to verify their hospital practice locations based on the information the MAC has from the hospital’s...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 2 (January 20, 2020) - CMS has agreed to pay a physical therapy practice $55,000 in a December settlement that’s at the intersection of claims and enrollment, and again runs into the...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recently announced that it plans to activate systematic validation edits for Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) providers with multiple service locations that...more
Beginning in July, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will direct Medicare Part A/B Macs to perform claim validation edits and return all claims to hospital providers if the address included on their...more
Your hospital may have some corrective work to do over the next few weeks if you want to avoid delays in receiving payment for your Medicare claims for services rendered at off-campus outpatient provider-based departments....more
Now is the time to double and triple check your Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) enrollment file to make sure all information for off-campus provider-based service locations is correct. ...more
On June 1, 2018, CMS issued further guidance for reporting and reviewing final adverse legal actions (ALAs) in provider enrollment applications. In Transmittal 797, which replaces Transmittal 784 to the Medicare Program...more
In a recent edition of MLN Connects, CMS reminded health care providers and suppliers of their obligation to report changes in ownership as part of their conditions of participation under Medicare....more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that, effective July 29, it extended and expanded temporary six-month moratoria on the enrollment of new Home Health Agencies (HHAs) statewide in Florida,...more
In keeping with the trend to strengthen its authority to deny an enrollment or revoke Medicare billing privileges, CMS has modified the appeals process in a manner that will significantly shorten the time allotted to mount an...more
To receive payment for items and services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries, a health care professional or facility must have approved Medicare billing privileges, which requires enrollment in the Medicare program. Failure...more
In its April 25, 2013 Medicare FFS Provider e-News, CMS announced that due to “technical issues” it would be delaying the implementation of the Phase 2 claims edits. ...more
In an April 24, 2009 transmittal, CMS announced a two-phase claims editing expansion designed to allow verification that the physician or non-physician practitioner (NPP) listed as the ordering/referring provider on a...more