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Submit Your RAPs Quickly To Keep Supplies Billing On Track

Published on Tue Mar 23, 2010

Don't shirk your consolidated billing duties, the feds tell home care providers. Are you doing all you can to coordinate your patients' supplies in the home under consolidated billing? If not, the feds aren't happy with you. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is giving home health agencies the full court press about supplies coordination. Soon CMS will issue new manual instructions and a provider education article on the topic, CMS's RandyThrondset said in the April 14 Open Door Forum for home care providers. The problem: Under the prospective payment system, a number of supplies are bundled into the home health PPS payment. When a DMEPOS supplier furnishes those items, it can not receive payment from Medicare for them because the supplies payment is included in the HHA consolidated billing payment. The supplier can seek payment from the HHA, but the agency is under no obligation to pay the [...]
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