Maine voters approve Medicaid expansion. This vote will allow many more low-income residents to qualify for Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, The Associated Press said. The vote this month passed with a 59% in favor and 41% against. At least 80,000 additional Maine residents will become eligible for Medicaid as a result of …
CMS has released the 2018 rules that finalize policy and payment changes for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC) Payment System. The PFS final rule will appear in the Federal Register on Nov. 15 and OPPS and ASC final rule on …
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November 2017, you will be able to order educational materials concerning the new card. Before April 1, 2018 your practice will need to update your system to be able to accept the MDI “Medicare Beneficiary Identifier” by April 1, 2018. If you have a vendor, utilize them to update their practice management system. Transition …
Quality payment program started anytime between January 1, 2017 and October 2, 2017. Whenever you chose to start, performance data needs to be submitted by March 31, 2018. January 1, 2019 is the date that the first payment adjustments based on performance goes into effect. The adjustments in the Medicare payments can be up, down …
Before submitting records to Medicare, you must make sure that the document is signed. The signature must be handwritten or electronic. There are many variations of handwritten and electronic signatures available to providers. A claim without a signature will surely be denied for payment. Did you know an illegible signature or provider’s initials are permitted? …
New Medicare Cards Offer Greater Protection to More Than 57.7 Million Americans New cards will no longer contain Social Security numbers, to combat fraud and illegal use CMS is readying a fraud prevention initiative that removes Social Security numbers from Medicare cards to help combat identity theft and safeguard taxpayer dollars. The new cards will …
