tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 15

INDUSTRY NOTES: CMS Scraps Timeliness Advice From Recent CMS-855 Transmittal

Plus: Watch out for modifier misuse before it lands you in hot water. When it comes to Medicare enrollment, CMS certainly likes keeping providers on their toes. Our article 3 Mistakes Could Derail Your Medicare Enrollment offered snippets from CMS transmittal 292, dated June 12. In the transmittal, CMS listed over a dozen mistakes that providers might make that would cause their carrier to immediately return their enrollment application -- including submitting your CMS-855 enrollment form too early. But this week, CMS changed course, re-releasing the transmittal as a blank document other than a headline indicating that the change...

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