Home Health & Hospice Week

You being ready for the new Medicare cards is only part of the job. "Your Medicare patients will not get new cards if their addresses are not correct," the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services points out in a new message to providers.

Do this: "If the address you have on file is different than the Medicare address you get in electronic eligibility transaction responses, ask your patient to correct their address through Social Security," CMS exhorts.