tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 11

REGULATIONS: Fast Facts--Home Health ABNs

Insufficient notices can land providers in hot water.Providers who don't understand the ins and outs of the new home health advance beneficiary notices could run into trouble with surveyors.Home health agencies must master the new advance beneficiary notice requirements, cautions Burtonsville, MD-based attorney Elizabeth Hogue. That's because the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services clearly specifies that agencies will be violating the Medicare conditions of participation if they don't adhere to ABN requirements.Here are vital facts every provider should know about the new ABNs:• CMS requires providers to use the new forms by May 31. But...

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