Home Health & Hospice Week

Use this new payer ID number by the deadline or lose payment. You might think you don't need to do much about the MAC transition if Palmetto GBA is your intermediary, but you need to make some important changes to continue getting your Medicare reimbursement. Palmetto is the current regional home health intermediary for Region C, which includes Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Last September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded the Jurisdiction 11 (J11) Medicare Administrative Contractor business to Palmetto, which includes the Home Health and Hospice (HHH) work in the same states. Do this: Starting Jan. 24, home health agencies and hospices must use new payer ID number 11001 on their claims, even though they are still submitting the claims to Palmetto, the MAC says in its January newsletter for providers. "This [...]