tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 29

Home Health: CMN No Longer Required For DME Repairs

Good news on diagnosis coding trickles down to DMERCs as well. Suppliers can cross at least a few paperwork tasks off their list of Medicare requirements - certificates of medical necessity and physician orders for durable medical equipment repairs. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "shortly" will issue an instruction on requirements for DME repairs, said a CMS official in a June 25 special DME Open Door Forum. The instruction will clarify that neither CMNs nor physician orders will be necessary for Medicare to pay for repairs. That will go for DME that Medicare paid for, or for...

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