Medicare Termination of Beneficiaries With End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)
This change request does not revise Medicare policies. These instructions relate to a subset of Medicare beneficiaries. We are notifying the contractors not to assess overpayments for service dates prior to the official notice of termination in November 2003, even if under Part A there was a retroactive period of termination. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made this no fault determination decision. As described below, ESRD beneficiaries should have been terminated from Part A coverage prior to December 1999 but it did not happen.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: October 29, 2004
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