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Use This FISS Option To Track Your Outliers

Published on Fri Feb 26, 2010

Medicare claims system failed to cap outliers until recently. Keeping tabs on your outlier percentage under the new 10 percent cap just got easier. The Fiscal Intermediary Shared System will now show you your outlier payment and home health prospective payment system totals, regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA notes on its Web site. How to do it: Just use the new FISS screen created for the process, says RHHI Palmetto GBA. "Access the information by selecting Option 01 (Inquiries) from the DDE Main Menu and option 67 (Home Health Payment Totals Inquiry) from the submenu," the contractor instructs home health agencies on its Web site. "Providers will be required to enter their OSCAR (Provider number) and National Provider Identifier (NPI) to access this information." The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services had made the screen available earlier this year, but it wasn't functioning properly (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XIX, [...]
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