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Home Health & Hospice Week
2017 Newsletter
Industry Note: MACs Offer 2 New Pre-Claim Review Tools
Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
MACs Offer 2 New Pre-Claim Review Tools
Published on Fri Jan 27, 2017
The HHH Medicare Administrative Contractors are offering two more Pre-Claim Review tools as Florida’s April 1 PCR implementation date looms closer. See an overview flowchart of the PCR process from Palmetto GBA at
www.palmettogba.com/Palmetto/Providers.Nsf/files/PCR_Process.pdf/$File/PCR_Process.pdf
. And you can check to see if you are subject to PCR in CGS’s new PCR look up tool at
http://cgsmedicare.com/medicare_dynamic/pcr/search.asp
. “Simply enter your [...]
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