Guest guest Posted July 13, 2008 Report Share Posted July 13, 2008 Wayne, I know that CMS told the Medicare contractors NOT to process claims for the first 10 business days in July for physicians as a result of Congress' decision not to stop the cut on reimbursement rates. I don't think that it would affect ambulance claims, but it might explain it. Here's the article I read from TMA: http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=6927 -Ben Wayne D wrote: > > I've got a question for the group. Those that either do your own > billing or use an outside billing company, are you having problems > with Medicare paying claims slow? The time is normally 10-14 days > right? Are they only paying small amounts or several claims at once? > > Any information would be great. > > Thanks, > Wayne > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 I heard about that. But does anyone know if EMS was effected by this? Our boss tells us that money is slow coming in from Medicare, we are thinking something else. Wayne > > I've got a question for the group. Those that either do your own > billing or use an outside billing company, are you having problems > with Medicare paying claims slow? The time is normally 10-14 days > right? Are they only paying small amounts or several claims at once? > > Any information would be great. > > Thanks, > Wayne > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 Yes. all Part B suppliers (EMS) were impacted by this. From: texasems-l [mailto:texasems-l ] On Behalf Of Wayne D Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:56 AM To: texasems-l Subject: Re: Medicare I heard about that. But does anyone know if EMS was effected by this? Our boss tells us that money is slow coming in from Medicare, we are thinking something else. Wayne > > I've got a question for the group. Those that either do your own > billing or use an outside billing company, are you having problems > with Medicare paying claims slow? The time is normally 10-14 days > right? Are they only paying small amounts or several claims at once? > > Any information would be great. > > Thanks, > Wayne > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 14, 2008 Report Share Posted July 14, 2008 Wayne, It was not intended to affect EMS, but several in the industry felt that it possibly could. The other issue is the change over to using the NPI only and losing the legacy Medicare number. There have been a number of issues related to this from data entry errors to Trailblazers not being ready for the switch...but again, all of these, from what I hear, should be cleared up by now. Have y'all called Trailblazers?? You might ask.? We get our payments in big lump sums but this is because we transmit batches to them...not onesies and twosies....we haven't seen any slow down. Dudley Re: Medicare I heard about that. But does anyone know if EMS was effected by this? Our boss tells us that money is slow coming in from Medicare, we are thinking something else. Wayne > > I've got a question for the group. Those that either do your own > billing or use an outside billing company, are you having problems > with Medicare paying claims slow? The time is normally 10-14 days > right? Are they only paying small amounts or several claims at once? > > Any information would be great. > > Thanks, > Wayne > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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