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Skilled Nursing Facility Advance Beneficiary Notice of Non-Coverage (SNF ABN)

This article informs you about Change Request (CR) 10567, which advises you that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has revised the Skilled Nursing Facility Notice of Non-coverage (SNF ABN), Form CMS-10055. With this revision, CMS is discontinuing the five Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Denial Letters (namely, the Intermediary Determination of Noncoverage, the UR Committee Determination of Admission, the UR Committee Determination on Continued Stay, the SNF Determination on Admission and the SNF Determination on Continued Stay), and the Notice of Exclusion from Medicare Benefits (NEMB-SNF), Form CMS-20014.

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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: March 30, 2018

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