Electronic Templates for Cost Report Exhibits
| CMS has published and uploaded all final/ready-to-use documentation for the optional electronic specifications and templates to a new info page on CMS.gov: Electronic Cost Report Exhibit Templates The published specifications and templates support the Medicare Bad Debt Listing (across the various applicable cost report forms), and the Medicaid Eligible Days (Exhibit 3A , Charity Care Charges (Exhibit 3B), and Total Bad Debt (Exhibit 3C) exhibits for the 2552-10. You will note that CMS has published XLSX Exhibit Templates and PDF or DOCX Exhibit specifications. If used in conjunction with e-filings in MCReF, providers can receive immediate feedback about potential issues with their listings, along with faster acceptance and tentative settlement. For a brief overview of the templates and their potential use in MCReF, you can also refer to the 3/30/2023 MCReF Webinar which had a section on them starting at slide 10. |
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