DOCUMENTATION: Missing Info Will Generate New Remark Code Alert
Check that your claims include the required ordering physician ID number.
Starting Oct. 5, intermediaries and carriers will begin Phase 1 of the physician ID edit -- which means you'd better double check details.
They will still process a claim when an ordering doc's National Provider Identifier (NPI) number isn't in the PECOS or contractor file, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explains in Transmittal No. 510 (CR 6417), reissued June 26. But the claim will carry a new remark code: "M68 (missing/incomplete/invalid attending, ordering, rendering, supervising or referring physician identification)."
When CMS begins Phase 2 of...
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