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5010 Readiness:

Medicare Won't Penalize You for 5010 Non-Compliance Until March 31, 2012

Published on Thu Jan 13, 2011

Plus: Avoid PO boxes on 5010, despite what your MAC tells you.Sweating over the fact that your 5010 standard won't be in place by the Jan. 1 deadline? CMS has an early holiday gift for your ophthalmology practice, with the Nov. 17 announcement that it will not initiate enforcement action regarding 5010 until March 31, 2012.Not a deadline shift: CMS stresses in its statement that the 5010 compliance date remains Jan. 1, 2012. However, the agency will not penalize practices that aren't using 5010 until after the new 90-day "discretionary enforcement period" ends in March, as long as practices can demonstrate that they are working toward 5010 use."If requested, covered entities that are the subject of complaints must produce evidence of either compliance or a good faith effort to become compliant with the new HIPAA standards during the 90-day period," CMS says in its statement.To read the complete CMS announcement, [...]
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