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PROGRAM MEMO ROUNDUP

Published on Thu Oct 09, 2003

Hospital-based renal dialysis facilities need to stop using their hospitals' provider numbers when billing for Part B outpatient renal services.

That's the message from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a Sept. 26 program memorandum (A-03-082; ). "It is required that the assigned RDF provider number be used on the CMS-1450 billing form (or electronic equivalent)" when submitting claims for such services, CMS says. The RDF provider numbers are in the 2300-2499 series; hospital-based chronic RDFs should contact their CMS regional office if they don't already have a number.

In other program memoranda, CMS:

  • clarifies policies on how certified transplant centers should bill the costs of acquiring organs (A-03-081; );

  • reminds Medicare contractors to update the blended rates for the ambulance fee schedule during the phase-in period (AB-03-146; );

  • outlines policies relating to beneficiaries want to receive care at religious nonmedical health care institutions (AB-03-145; ); and

  • supplements instructions relating to coordination of benefits contractors (AB-03-142; ).

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