tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 11

PATIENT RIGHTS: HHAs Brace For An ABN Avalanche

Reasons to give notices just multiplied.Home health agencies will be taking on an even heavier paperwork burden by May 31.After a long wait, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued the final, revised home health advance beneficiary notice. The agency issued new ABN forms and instructions last May, when it also expedited review notices. But CMS failed to implement the new ABN when the new review notices went into effect last July 1. Now revised ABNs are out, and HHAs have until May 31 to switch to the new forms, CMS says.As in the...

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