Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Cahaba-To-CIGNA Transition Rolls Forward
Published on Tue Jan 11, 2011
The transition from regional home health intermediary Cahaba GBA to HHH MAC CIGNA continues to proceed. CMS has assigned CIGNA a new workload number for the RHHI business, CIGNA notes in a message to providers. CIGNA's 15004 number will take over from Cahaba's 00011 contractor number when the transition takes place in June. More details are in a January transmittal from CMS at www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R830OTN.pdf.
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