Advanced Search

Home Health & Hospice Week

HIPAA:

Providers Get A Breather On 5010 Until March

Published on Wed Nov 02, 2011

Evaluate your options for 5010 compliance. Sweating over the fact that your 5010 standard won't be in place by the Jan. 1 deadline? CMS has an early holiday gift for you, with the announcement that it will not initiate enforcement action regarding 5010 until March 31, 2012. "The enforcement extension means versions 4010A1 or 5010 claims will be allowed for 90 days," explains the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Not a deadline shift: CMS stresses in its Nov. 17 statement that the 5010 compliance date remains Jan. 1, 2012. However, the agency will not penalize providers that aren't using 5010 until after the new 90-day "discretionary enforcement period" ends in March, as long as they can demonstrate that they are working toward 5010 use. "If requested, covered entities that are the subject of complaints must produce evidence of either compliance or a good faith effort to become compliant [...]
You’ve reached your limit of free articles. Already a subscriber? Log in.
Not a subscriber? Subscribe today to continue reading this article. Plus, you’ll get:
  • Simple explanations of current healthcare regulations and payer programs
  • Real-world reporting scenarios solved by our expert coders
  • Industry news, such as MAC and RAC activities, the OIG Work Plan, and CERT reports
  • Instant access to every article ever published in your eNewsletter
  • 6 annual AAPC-approved CEUs*
  • The latest updates for CPT®, ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II, NCCI edits, modifiers, compliance, technology, practice management, and more
*CEUs available with select eNewsletters.

Other Articles in this issue of

Home Health & Hospice Week

View All