DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 1 (January)
Get ready for a 10-day hold on all of your Part B claims
CMS will ring in the New Year with a temporary payment hold on your claims. According to a CMS list-serve notice issued Dec. 21, carriers will hold claims for ten business days (Jan. 1 to Jan. 15, 2010). CMS is taking this step to avoid the confusion that has resulted when Congress passed a pay fix soon after the start of the year and carriers had to reprocess all of the claims that were submitted in the interim.
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