Providers of ambulance services can gain a bit of insight into how carriers calculate the reasonable charge portion of their blended transitional payments from a Nov. 21 one-time notification (change request 2700) from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. For new suppliers, the reasonable charge should be the lower of: the supplier's submitted charge, the 50th percentile prevailing charge, and the prevailing inflation-indexed charge, CMS explains.
In other recent one-time notifications, CMS:
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