Advance Beneficiary Notices: Pocket This Primer on New ABN Forms
Tip: Use patient-friendly language when creating ABNs.
Last year, the feds released an updated advance beneficiary notice (ABN) form with a summer release date, then extended the start date to Jan. 1, 2021. The new form is now required, but confusion still exists on the logistics. Read on for details and insight.
Then: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) debuted an updated ABN that providers were required to use as of Aug. 31, 2020; however, the agency published a pandemic exception pushing the start date out. “At this time, the renewed ABN will be mandatory for...
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