Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Brush Up On Claims Adjustments And Cancels
Published on Fri Mar 14, 2014
If claims adjustments and cancels are throwing your billing into disarray, you may want to check out a recent educational webinar from HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS. You can access the MAC’s March 6 “Claim Adjustments and Cancels using the Fiscal Intermediary Standard Sys-tem (FISS)” session by going to www.cgsmedicare. com/hhh/education/Education.html and scrolling down to the “Replay Past Webinars and Teleconfer-ences” section.
Tip: “Complete the registration to obtain access to the handout materials and information to replay the event via your telephone,” CGS instructs. “Please note that webinars are available for only 30 days from the date of the live presentation.”
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