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Know The Rules For 5010 Address Field

Published on Wed Nov 02, 2011

Warning: Your contractor could be issuing incorrect information. If you're sticking to your guns and leaving a P.O. box as your place of service address on the new 5010 form that will be required starting Jan. 1, expect denials. That's the word from CMS's Chris Stahl-ecker, who spoke about this issue during the agency's Nov. 9 HIPAA Version 5010 National Provider Call. A caller phoned in to the forum and said that her Medicare Administrative Contractor told her that it would not enforce the restriction on the 5010 form that will prohibit providers from putting a P.O. box on 5010 forms as the place of service address. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, however, sang a different tune. "That's a very interesting comment for you to raise," Stahlecker said. "The billing provider address line cannot be a P.O. box, and, no, CMS has not taken the position that that [...]
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