tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 8

Part B Payment: One Medicare Contractor OK's RNs and LPNs to Furnish Annual Wellness Visit

Plus: 'Hundreds of millions of claims' to be reprocessed in coming weeks, CMS says.CMS staffers confirmed that MACs can determine whether they'll allow licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs) to perform annual wellness visits (AWVs) and collect from Medicare for those services. That's the word from a Feb. 22 CMS Open Door Forum, where practices called in with several questions affecting Part B providers.One caller phoned into the forum to ask about a Q&A posted on the Web site of WPS Medicare, a Part B payer in four states, which asks whether an RN...

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