Home Health & Hospice Week

Don’t be surprised to see changes if you need to request an Extended Repayment Schedule. Changes to the ERS process took effect Sept. 3, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA notes on its website.

For example: While your MAC or CMS evaluates your ERS request, Medicare now will recoup 30 percent on the overpayment for which the request was submitted. That’s down from 100 percent, Palmetto points out. "The 30 percent recoupment will be applied to the outstanding overpayment in addition to the required monthly payment submissions by the provider while the plan is under review," the MAC explains.

See other ERS changes, including adjustments to the hardship definition, at www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manuals/downloads/fin106c04.pdf.