Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

If you’re updating your compliance protocols, you may want to add the updated Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN) form to your to-do list for a start date of Aug. 31.

The ABN form (CMS-R-131) “and form instructions have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) says in a June 24 message to providers. “The use of the renewed form with the expiration date of 06/30/2023 will be mandatory on 8/31/2020.”

The ABN form and instructions are at www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-General-Information/BNI/ABN.