tci Part B Insider - 2017 Issue 6

Physician Notes: Review New Smart Form Guidance from Cahaba

Plus: A Chicago physician is looking at possibly 120 years for Medicare fraud. If the bar code is incorrect on your appeals form, Cahaba will reject it. Medicare Administrative Carrier Cahaba GBA recently offered guidance on its website concerning a rise in the number of improperly filed appeals smart forms. Many Part B providers are “downloading or copying” the form “to submit their appeal request,” the MAC says. But the bar codes on the download are different from the bar codes that are generated during the submission process, which confuses the system. “Please note, when...

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