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Pay Up Or Appeal For Incarcerated Denials

Published on Fri Aug 16, 2013

Don’t expect to see denials for supposedly incarcerated beneficiaries cleared up before October. So says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a Frequently Asked Question set on the matter. "The resolution of this situation will require a series of complex actions including the restoration of the original data on the Medicare Enrollment Data Base, the identification of the [...]
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