tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 2

Ambulance: SAY GOODBYE TO RURAL TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE

On the other hand, say hello to a 2.1 percent cost-of-doing-business increase.  Ambulance suppliers that had their fingers crossed that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' failure to include a phase-out of extra payments for rural mileage in its fee schedule meant that the added cash would keep rolling in got some bad news Dec. 5. CMS made clear in a final rule published in the Federal Register that bonus payments for rural mileage from mile 18 through mile 50 sunsets on Dec. 31, 2003, as prescribed by statute. In the rule, CMS also unveiled a...

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