HCAF staff learned this morning that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has officially announced the Illinois start date for the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD).
Providers in Illinois will begin their RCD choice selection on April 17, 2019, and end on May 16, 2019. Following the close of the choice selection period, the RCD will begin in Illinois on June 1, 2019, and all episodes of care starting on or after this date will be subject to the requirements of the choice selected.
Click here to review CMS's announcement in its entirety, and
click here to access RCD resources on HCAF's website.
Neither the sequence nor implementation dates for the remaining four states (Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, and Florida) have been announced at this time. However, CMS and Palmetto GBA will provide at least 60 days of notice before the choice selection period starts in each of the additional four states. CMS will provide notice on their
website before phasing in the other demonstration states.
In the meantime, HCAF strongly encourages you to take time now to register with the
Palmetto GBA eServices portal. Even if you are certain that you have registered on the portal, be sure to double check and make sure your login and password provides you access.
Once the choice selection window opens up for Florida you will only have 30 days to make your selection ––
the only way to select which Review Choice option you want is through the eServices portal.
During the selection period, agencies must choose pre-claim review, post-payment review, or minimal post-payment review with a 25% payment reduction. Home health agencies that do not make a choice selection will be automatically subject to post-payment review.
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