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A Few Days Late Can Mean A Month Of Delayed Payments With Cost Reports

Published on Thu Feb 29, 2024

Just because cost reports don’t have direct reimbursement impacts doesn’t mean you can slack off with them. So warns HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA in a new post to its website. “Medicare cost reports are required to be filed each year … within five months of the end of provider’s cost reporting period,” Palmetto stresses. “Filing the cost report [...]
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