tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 22

Physician Note: Owe Medicare Money? Expect An Enrollment Application Denial

Plus: OIG wants pro-rated hospital pay for hospice discharges. CMS has found a clever way to ensure that you repay money that the program overpaid to you. If you have an existing Medicare overpayment that you haven’t repaid in full and you complete a new enrollment application, the agency may deny that enrollment. That’s the word from MLN Matters article MM8039, issued on May 31 and effective on Oct. 1. The new directive doesn’t just depend on whether the applying physician or non-physician practitioner owes the money. In fact, that practitioner will be denied even if...

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