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Proposed rule goes too far

May 31, 2013Elizabeth Deprey

WASHINGTON - Providers with high error rates could lose their billing privileges if a proposed rule takes effect.The Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule in the Federal Register April 29 that contains a provision that would expand Medicare's authority to revoke billing privileges to cases where the provider “has a pattern or practice of billing for services that do not meet Medicare requirements.”That's going too far, say stakeholders.“This is not revocation...

Baker Donelson, CMS, Federal Register, Medicare