Benefits Exhaust and No-Payment Billing Instructions for Medicare Fiscal Intermediaries (FIs) and Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs)
This instruction implements a standard process for benefits exhaust and no-payment billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities. In addition, this instruction restores information in Chapter 1, Section 50.2.1 inadvertently deleted in CR 3671, Transmittal 493, dated March 4, 2005, regarding hospitals in Maryland under the jurisdiction of the Health Services Cost Review Commission and interim billing for inpatient psychiatric facilities.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: April 28, 2006
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