HIPAA:
Providers Get A Breather On 5010 Until March
Published on Wed Nov 02, 2011
Evaluate your options for 5010 compliance. Sweating over the fact that your 5010 standard won't be in place by the Jan. 1 deadline? CMS has an early holiday gift for you, with the announcement that it will not initiate enforcement action regarding 5010 until March 31, 2012. "The enforcement extension means versions 4010A1 or 5010 claims will be allowed for 90 days," explains the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Not a deadline shift: CMS stresses in its Nov. 17 statement that the 5010 compliance date remains Jan. 1, 2012. However, the agency will not penalize providers that aren't using 5010 until after the new 90-day "discretionary enforcement period" ends in March, as long as they can demonstrate that they are working toward 5010 use. "If requested, covered entities that are the subject of complaints must produce evidence of either compliance or a good faith effort to become compliant [...]