tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 28

Physicians: DOCS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RETROACTIVE OVERPAYMENTS

Physicians' summer won't be as bleak as feared. Physicians won't have to cough up overpayments arising from the delayed implementation of the 2003 Medicare physician fee schedule after all. July was looking to be a tricky cash flow month for physicians, since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had planned to require carriers to collect overpayments relating to certain claims for services provided in January and February of this year. The problem arose from the delay in the effective date of the fee schedule, which was March 1, 2003, rather than Jan. 1. Claims with dates of service...

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