{"id":524,"date":"2020-08-26T07:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:08:15","slug":"notice-on-cms-change-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Notice on CMS Change Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">On August 21, 2020 CMS posted two significant change requests to its website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">CR 11644 &#8211; Communicated changes to the cost report acceptability checklists used by MACs to make acceptable cost report determinations.\u00a0 This CR removes the review of the PI file encryption codes and establishes Provider documentation variance allowance of +-3 percent.\u00a0 The full Change Request is available at: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/r10316otn.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/r10316otn.pdf<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">In addition, CMS issued CR 11642.\u00a0 This CR provides MAC instructions regarding the calculation of nursing and allied health Medicare+Choice payments and the proportional reduction to MA direct GME payments.\u00a0 The changes to the proportional reduction to MA direct GME payments were initiated in Transmittal 16 of Form CMS 2552-10.\u00a0 The full Change Request is available at: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/r10315otn.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/r10315otn.pdf<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 21, 2020 CMS posted two significant change requests to its website. \u00a0 CR 11644 &#8211; Communicated changes to the cost report acceptability checklists used by MACs to make acceptable cost report determinations.\u00a0 This CR removes the review of the PI file encryption codes and establishes Provider documentation variance allowance of +-3 percent.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.hfssoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}