On August 9, 2019, the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) held an industry conference call and announced it was under mandate to reduce the current backlog of 338,819 conditional payment leads. Instead of inundating the industry with hundreds of thousands of...
CMS continued its series of webinars on September 17th introducing the CRC to the industry and explaining how it will impact conditional payment recovery processes. Previously we blogged on the last CMS webinar, but there were additional helpful clarifications in...
In November 2014, pursuant to the SMART Act, CMS implemented a process where RREs could use a partial SSN (last 5 digits) where the RRE was unable to obtain the full SSN when reporting ORM and TPOCs. A recent issue has been identified where RREs have been using only a...
Franco Signor LLC – November 15, 2010 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new liability reporting rules in an alert on November 9, 2010. Click here for the Alert. Responsible Reporting Entities (RRE) may now voluntarily report liability...
Is it really necessary for the Centers of Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) to require Responsible Reporting Entities (RRE) to collect private information such as Social Security Numbers (SSN) or Health Identification Card Numbers (HICN) from Medicare claimants...
