tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 23

HHAs: New ABNs Must Go By New, Expanded Rules

Agencies hope for more clarity in ABN instructions.It's official: You have at least three months' breathing room on the new home health advance beneficiary notice (HHABN).Due to the high volume of comments received on the ABN's Paperwork Reduction Act notice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "is extending the phase-in period for use of the new form through at least September 1, 2006," the agency said in a May 26 email to its home health Open Door Forum listserv."Home health agencies may continue to use either the traditional HHABN or the revised version of...

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