New Medicare ABN Form Required For Chiropractors Effective June 21, 2017, Medicare will require all chiropractors to utilize the newly published ABN (Advanced Beneficiary Notice) form. The changes to the form are minor, however, the consequences for not using the new form are major: use the new ABN form by the launch date or [...]
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CMS Announces HIPAA 5010 Enforcement Deadline Extension
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday the extension of the HIPAA 5010 deadline – enforcement will begin March 31, 2012 instead of the January 1, 2012. This gives HIPAA covered entities (any healthcare organization that processes, stores or transfers any type of patient health information, PHI) an extra three months to prepare [...]
Version 5010 – Are YOU Prepared?
Do you conduct HIPAA transactions electronically? Have you contacted your software vendors regarding HIPAA Version 5010? Do you know what you have to do to be fully compliant with HIPAA Version 5010? HIPAA version 5010 is a group of standards that are used when submitting claim information and other healthcare information electronically. HIPAA requires the [...]
Important Update on Medicare Pecos Ruling on Referring Dr.
Medicare announced yesterday, January 11th, that they will be continuing to delay the initiation of the ordering/referring provider edit. Originally they had announced that they would initiate an edit that would deny any claims with referring or ordering providers who were not entered into the PECOS system. The PECOS system, or Provider Enrollment, Chain, and [...]
Are You Enrolled in PECOS?
The original deadline set by CMS for all ordering and referring providers to enroll in the Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) was set for July 6, 2010. However, in a news release dated June 30th, CMS announced that they will not make the changes that will automatically reject claims based on ordering or [...]