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Compliance Alert: New ABN Form Required

Universal Webinar on June 29th at 2 PM EDT

Compliance Alert 

Attention Providers: New ABN form REQUIRED for all ABN's created on or after 6/21/17.

 

The revised English and Spanish ABN's have been replaced in HDMS Version 3.17.3 which is available for download. If you are not ready to update to HDMS Version 3.17.3 please contact Universal's Software's Support department so that you can receive the ABN files to update those in your existing version. 

Universal Software Webinar Short!

2017 HDMS Users Conference Preview

How HDMS Smart Are You?

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2017 HDMS User Conference Brochure Now In Your Mailbox.

 

'Knocking Down Barriers'  is the theme for the third 2017 HDMS Annual Users Conference in Livonia, Michigan.  The conference is September 20 & 21st, with early registration check-in on September 19th.

The conference features 16 hours of valuable HDMS education, including the first ever 2-day HDMS Boot Camp. Also, there will be ample opportunities to meet and learn from industry leaders, a chance to network with other HDMS users and connect with our staff at Universal Software Solutions.   Click here for a downloadable version of the brochure.

 

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Hurry Up and Wait! 

Several dormant winter months after CMS released its instruction regarding CR9968 Mass Adjustment stemming from the CURES Act was quite a contrast to the barrage of information that started flowing from the MAC Contractors in May. Only a week after CMS released the retro-active fee schedule for Rural CBA and Non-Bid Areas July-Dec 2016, the community received definition from the MAC Contractors about how claims would be processed. 

Even more surprising was the announcement that this repayment would start within the same month. However, as Providers digested the information it became clear that this gift of repayment was going to come at a substantial cost to the Provider community, when MAC Contractors stressed that these little presents would come with no special packaging.

With a Cheshire grin the MAC Contractors explained that Mass Adjustment claims will have no unique identifier, and therefore Providers would have nothing to reference when contacting call centers (so don't even try it!). Providers and Software Developers soon started to realize that no unique identifier means no way to put any special auto-posting logic in place, and no way to call out these trojan payments as they mix into regular payments and begin gumming up the works.

The silver lining of Competitive Bid is that our Community has learned how to push back in a more effective way. DME/HME Providers, Associations, and Advisors demanded that the MAC Contractors establish a unique identifier for these repayments, and N689 was born!

We've seen CGS and Noridian share that RARC code N689 will be present in the 2100.MOA segment of the ANSI 835 Professional claim file.

After a failed attempt processing these claims in May, we are on standby waiting for MAC Contractors to "resolve a problem" that caused over payment in the first small batch. Stay tuned.

by Lisa Anderson