Manual Updates Regarding Home Health Adjustments and Skilled Nursing Facility, Home Health and Hospice Pricer Information
The purpose of this Change Request (CR) is to update instructions regarding adjustments to home health claims when a beneficiary is unexpectedly discharged after a 'Still Patient' claim has been submitted. It also revises and deletes sections of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual that contain Pricer information to reflect the conversion of these programs from mainframe COBOL to Java in the Cloud.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: February 21, 2025
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