{"id":25042,"date":"2025-10-17T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25042"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:54:58","slug":"cms-walks-back-medicare-payment-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25042","title":{"rendered":"CMS walks back Medicare payment pause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Erica Cerutti for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMS has clarified that only select Medicare claims will be held amid the ongoing federal government shutdown, walking back an earlier notice that suggested a broader payment pause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn light of the continuing government shutdown, CMS will continue to process and pay held claims in a timely manner with the exception of select claims for services impacted by the expired provisions,\u201d the agency said in an Oct. 15 notice. \u201cTo date, no payments have been delayed as statute already requires all claims to be held for a minimum of fourteen days, and this recent hold is consistent with that statutory requirement. Providers may continue to submit claims accordingly.\u201d  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/cms-walks-back-medicare-payment-pause\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/cms-walks-back-medicare-payment-pause\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Erica Cerutti for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) CMS has clarified that only select Medicare claims will be held amid the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[80,238,61],"class_list":["post-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25043,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}