Insertion of the Debt Collection System (DCS) User Guide into the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Section of the Manual and Associated Revisions/Updates to the DCS User Guide
This Change Request (CR) inserts the Debt Collection System (DCS) User
Guide into the MSP section of the manual for the first time. (Pub.100-05, Chapter 7, Section 60-Medicare
Secondary Payer (MSP) Debt Collection and Referral Activities) In addition, this CR revises/updates
portions of the DCS User Guide. Specifically, the Search Screen and the Data Entry Screen on the DCS have
been revamped slightly to increase the ability to locate a debt in the DCS, the expansion of the Debt Number
field to 20 characters, the deletion of some of the fields that were no longer needed on the DCS and the
addition/defining of some of the new DCS fields. Also a few minor revisions/updates have been made to the
following sections within the DCS User Guide: Updating a Debt, General Collections Information,
Definitions, and Examples, the Reports Section, the DCS Status Codes Section, the MSP and Non-MSP
General Help Information Sections, and the addition of a HIGLAS General Help Information Section.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: January 04, 2008
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