tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 14

Industry Notes: Medicare Opt-Outs Now Auto-Renew Every 2 Years

If you’ve been opting out of Medicare every two years, CMS has either great news or terrible news for you, depending on how long you plan to stay out of the Medicare program. Thanks to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), any opt-out affidavit that you sign on or after June 16, 2015 will auto-renew every two years. In the past, you had to manually refile your opt-out authorization every two years — so if you plan to stay out of Medicare indefinitely, the new change will be quite welcome and will save you...

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