tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 9

Reader Questions: Deal with New Medicare 'Opt Out' Process

Question: Our surgery practice has chosen to opt out of Medicare. I heard that there’s a change in how we do that, and wondered if you might have any information to help us out. Tennessee Subscriber Answer: You are correct that there has been a recent change in how you opt out of Medicare. Thanks to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), any opt-out affidavit that you sign on or after June 16, 2015 will auto-renew every two years. In the past, you had to manually refile your opt-out authorization every two years &mdash...

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