tci Part B Insider - 2009 Issue 5

ENROLLMENT: Quell Confusion About CMS' 30-Day Retrospective Billing Rule

If your head continues to spin over the new 30-day rule, we've got clarification straight from Medicare. Practices that are panicking over Medicare's 30-day retrospective billing regulation may find a reason to exhale with a new Medicare clarification. Effective this year, you'll be able to retroactively bill Medicare for services your physician rendered up to 30 days prior to the date of filing a Medicare enrollment application that a Medicare contractor subsequently approves. As we reported in the Insider (Vol. 10, No. 2), Jim Bossenmeyer of CMS' office of financial management said during a Jan. 13 CMS open door...

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