Industry Notes
Published on Tue Mar 16, 2010
• You'd better pay close attention to your mail or risk having your Medicare billing privileges yanked before you know it. On April 12, regional home health intermediary Palmetto GBA sent home health agencies letters requiring submission of the HHA's licensure and/or accreditation. Agencies must submit the documentation by April 30. "Failure to submit valid state license and/or accreditation documentation by the requested date will result in your Medicare billing privileges being revoked," Palmetto warns. What's at stake: Under a new rule that took effect Jan. 1, if your billing privileges are revoked for any reason, you must undergo a new survey (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, No. 2, p. 10). And many states are putting new surveys at the very bottom of their survey and certification priority list. A link to the notice and a cover sheet is at
www.palmettogba.com/palmetto/providers.nsf/vMasterDID/84GSCW7337?opendocument.
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