tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 9

PHYSICIANS: CMS Postpones Payments For PMDs

Congress withholds funding to delay interim final rule's implementation.Power wheelchairs and scooters will be moving along much more quickly than their claims reimbursement for the next six weeks.Physicians should hold off on submitting claims for power mobility devices until April 1, 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in a Feb. 14 fact sheet. The postponement follows a Congressional directive in the Appropriations Act (H.R. 3010) that prohibits CMS from using funds to implement its PMD interim final rule until April 1.The interim final rule, which went into effect Oct. 25, 2005, requires...

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