tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 1

MACs Are Holding 2015 Claims Through Jan. 14

Plus: CMS has already changed the conversion factor for 2015. With the New Year comes new payment amounts—and sometimes, new problems. Despite the fact that CMS published the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule in November, the agency found several technical errors in the document and therefore all MACs are holding 2015 claims for the first two weeks of the year. “On Nov. 13, the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule was published in the Federal Register,” said CMS’s Louisa Rink during a Jan. 7 CMS Open Door Forum.However, she said, in order...

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