Revision to Common Working File (CWF) Edit 729K to Deny Claims for Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Furnished to Beneficiaries in a Non-Part A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Stay
Change Request (CR) 6695 contained instructions for the CWF to create a
new edit to reject incoming claims for DME provided to Medicare beneficiaries during non-covered Part A
stays in a SNF. It has come to CMS’ attention that the criteria for this edit was overly broad, resulting in
inappropriate denials of DME claims. Therefore, the coding associated with the 729K edit shall be revised.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: October 28, 2010
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