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PAWA offers best-practice tips from access professionals across the country who have found success with innovative approaches to problems. PAWA will also include a timely news brief to help you fine-tune processes and develop solutions for ongoing problems, such as collecting more money upfront and determining deductibles on high-deductible health plans.


August 27, 2008   (Volume 1, Issue 65)
 
NEWS: New ABN forms not mandatory until March 2009
You have more time to teach your patient access staff members about the revised Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) form.
 
SNEAK PEEK: Your MSP checklist
You have enough to worry about as a patient access manager without the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) nationwide hospital-auditing program. But you should be focused on it, especially in light of the fact that government auditors collected $12.7 million in its Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) RACs. Check out the two tips regarding the MSP.
 
Q&A: ABNs and HINNs

Learn the answer from CMS.

 

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