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These Factors Could Make Or Break Potentially Recalcitrant Providers

Published on Fri Feb 28, 2014

Your appeals success rate may save your bacon. If your MAC and CMS agree that you fit the recalcitrant provider definition, the results will be dire. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ newly articulated recalcitrant provider policy sets out civil money penalties and exclusion as punishments for providers that fit the definition. Exclusion is a harsh measure that equals [...]
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