tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 4

PART B REVENUE BOOSTER: Understand CMS' 30-Day Retrospective Billing Rule

Here's a 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.Jim Bossenmeyer of CMS' office of financial management said during a Jan. 13 CMS open door forum that the effective date of billing is the later of either the date of filing or the date the physician...

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