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No-Pay RAPs And Related Penalties Loom On The Horizon

Published on Fri Aug 07, 2020

If you’d been hoping the penalty for late or no RAPs would go away for next year, no such luck. In 2021, home health agencies won’t receive any payment for RAPs, receiving 100 percent of the period’s payment from the final claim. But agencies that fail to submit RAPs or submit them later than five days after care starts will [...]
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