tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 38

REIMBURSEMENT: Daily Billing, Early Appeals Helped Cushion The Blow From Payment Freeze

Physician offices still defrosting from 9-day Medicare freeze. The worst nine days of the year are over, and you have survived.Medicare put a hold on physician payments for the last nine days of September, until the beginning of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1. Even though providers had advance notice of the hold, it still made their lives difficult. "Everybody was pretty unhappy, as you can well imagine," says Linda Guerrera with Beth Israeal Deaconess Physician Organization in Boston. "I'm still not sure we survived," jokes Pat Boudreaux with Tyler Neurosurgical Associates in Tyler, TX...

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