Dear Cahaba_News Medicare Part B Ambulance Members,
Ambulance Corrections
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) allows providers to take advantage of the telephone reopening line to make simple corrections to processed Medicare claims.
In reviewing several of the ambulance appeals received, it is noted that there are a lot of corrections being sent in as appeals by ambulance providers that can be reviewed on the telephone reopening line. Specifically, allowing ambulance providers to call in only those corrections that require a GW modifier be added to the claim. These are not appeals, but simply corrections to claims that denied because the modifier was not used and the patient was in a Hospice environment.
Effective, Monday, February 9, 2009, if you have a claim that falls into this category and has been denied, you can call the toll-free Clerical Error Reopening lines to get the claim corrected. The Clerical Error Reopening lines are located at
http://www.cahabagba.com/part_b/contact_phone.htm. This will save time and expedite payment avoiding needless paperwork and delays due to timeliness factors for appeals. Additional information on Clerical Error Reopenings is located on our Web site at http://www.cahabagba.com/part_b/claims/clerical_error_reopen.htm.
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