Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Having Trouble Keeping Your HHCCNs, ABNs, And NOMNCs Straight? Turn To This New Resource
Published on Fri Sep 06, 2019
If you have questions about Medicare beneficiary notices that no amount of research seems to clear up, you have a new resource to turn to. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created a new mailbox portal for beneficiary notice initiative questions at BNImailbox @cms.hhs.gov. “The purpose of this new BNI mail- box portal is to provide a more efficient method for responding to provider, industry, and stakeholder questions,” CMS says in a notice. Reminder: BNs include the Home Health Change of Care Notice, Advance Beneficiary Notice, and Notice of Medicare Non-Coverage More information is at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-General-Information/BNI/.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
- Audits:
OIG Slaps HHA With $1.26 Million Overpayment
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Having Trouble Keeping Your HHCCNs, ABNs, And NOMNCs Straight? Turn To This New Resource
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