tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 29

HOSPITALS - Wanted: Your Info On Undocumented Aliens

Reward: your share of $1 billion MMA fund. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is dangling a new carrot in front of providers -- but will it be worth going through an awkward situation with their uninsured patients? The new proposal issued July 22 would make $250 million a year -- $1 billion total over four years -- available to hospitals and providers to "help recoup the costs of providing uninsured care" according to CMS. Nestled in the proposal is a requirement that hospitals and others collect and maintain additional information on the immigration status of patients in...

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