Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
CMS Wants To Move Providers To Electronic Remittances
Published on Wed Aug 24, 2005 
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If you're not receiving electronic remittance advice (RA) notices, then you could be wasting time and money.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to make it easy for you to cope with electronic RAs. CMS recently released a guide to understanding RAs and is trying to improve RA codes so that you can track a claim. Next month CMS will offer special software to allow you to print and search electronic RAs, CMS officials disclosed at a Sept. 12 provider town hall meeting.
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