Claim Adjustment Reason Code (CARC), Remittance Advice Remark Code (RARC), and Medicare Remit Easy Print (MREP) Update
This Change Request (CR) instructs contractors to add or modify reason and remark codes that have been added or modified since the release of transmittal 1674 dated January 30, 2009,
(CR 6336). This CR also instructs Shared System Maintainers (SSMs) to deactivate the codes that have been deactivated since CR 6336, and instructs SSMs and CEDI to accept deactivated codes in derivative messages. Additionally this CR instructs VIPs to update Medicare Remit Easy Print (MREP). This Recurring Update
Notification applies to Chapter 22, Section 60.1.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: May 15, 2009
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