{"id":9746,"date":"2018-03-05T09:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:48:51","slug":"new-medicare-guidance-on-rehab-claims-denials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9746","title":{"rendered":"New Medicare guidance on rehab claims denials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid services has issued new guidance to start March 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, to clarify instructions for conducting medical review of therapy claims in the case of intensive services.\u00a0 Medicare contractors will have to use clinical judgment rather than clock minutes to deny inpatient rehab services. Read how this change will affect providers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcknights.com\/news\/new-cms-guidance-could-halt-rehab-claims-denials\/article\/748481\/\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid services has issued new guidance to start March 23rd, to clarify instructions for conducting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746","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=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}