tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 36

Special report: Disaster Relief--Katrina, Aftermath Spur CMS To Loosen Guidelines

Unprecedented beneficiary blight lightens some procedure rules.Many physicians and other medical professionals are donating their time and resources to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is doing its part to ease their efforts. CMS says it's relaxing many of the normal procedures for Medicare and other federal health programs to make it easier to provide health care services to vulnerable beneficiaries. Many beneficiaries that were affected by the hurricane have no proof of their Medicare beneficiary status, and their health records may have been destroyed. So Medicare carriers won't require...

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