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Manual Now Reflects Transfer Clarifications, G Codes

Published on Tue May 10, 2011

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a lengthy update to Medicare's home health billing manual, but none of the information should be new to you. The updates in the 79-page CR 7338 cover the new G codes implemented Jan. 1, new details about billing for transfer patients, and other information released over the last few years. For example: "In order to ensure that otherproviders who may intend to provide HH services to a beneficiary have the benefit of the most current information via the CWF, CMS encourages primary HHAs to submit their RAPs as promptly as possible,"says the revised manual. The transmittal released May 27 is "basically catching up the manual with events that have already occurred," noted CMS's Wil Gehne in the May 25 Open Door Forum for home care providers. The manual is at www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R2230CP.pdf and a related MLN Matters article is at
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