Processing Claims Spanning More than Ten Years with Unlimited Occurrence Span Codes (OSCs)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented
Change Request (CR) 6777 to provide claims processing instructions for claims to be processed that have
OSCs beyond the currently billable amount of ten. CWF will need to implement changes in three phases
over a period of three releases to comply with allowing a claim where the Dates of Service span a benefit
period of 10 or more years.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: August 13, 2010
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