November CMS News: Mandatory Reporting and Conditional Payment Updates
Posted on November 24, 2020 by Tower MSA Partners
Here’s a recap of recently announced CMS news: CMS News #1: Medicare Conditional Payment Appeals Guide In follow-up to its September 2020 webinar on Medicare conditional payment appeals through the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC), CMS converted the slides into an…
April 1st Brings Electronic Payment Option to MSPRP
Posted on March 15, 2019 by Tower MSA Partners
In a March 13, 2019 webinar, CMS provided a high-level overview of the electronic payment option to be added to the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP) effective April 1, 2019. Below are the step-by-step instructions for using this E-Payment…
Enhancements to MSPRP Improve Conditional Payment Processes
Posted on July 27, 2018 by Daniel Anders
Since its introduction six years ago, the Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery Portal (MSPRP) has increasingly become more reliable and useful in communicating to and receiving information from the Medicare conditional payment recovery contractors (BCRC and CRC). Earlier this month, a…
CRC Contractor Change Brings New Team to Medicare Conditional Payment Recovery Efforts
Posted on January 21, 2018 by Daniel Anders
On Thursday, January 18, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a webinar to introduce the new Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) contractor, Performant Recovery, and Performant’s management team. This transition to a new contractor is important to…
CMS to Host Webinar on Transition to New CRC Contractor
Posted on January 9, 2018 by Daniel Anders
On Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 1:00 PM ET, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar for the purpose of introducing the new Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) contractor to Non-Group Health Plans. The CRC is…
New Commercial Repayment Center Contractor on the Horizon; WCRC Contract Protested
Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel Anders
A recent press release from the Performant Financial Corporation announced it has been awarded the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) contract by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Barring a bid protest, we expect a transition to the new…
CMS Releases Annual Report on CRC Conditional Payment Recovery
Posted on September 5, 2017 by Daniel Anders
On 8/30/2017 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its annual report on the Commercial Repayment Center’s (CRC) Medicare conditional payment collections for the 2016 fiscal year (10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016). In short, the report documents the CRC identified $243.68…
Posted on July 24, 2017 by Daniel Anders
While the Commercial Repayment Center (CRC) has faced some valid criticism over the course of the past year and half in relation to its recovery efforts on behalf of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS), not all problems…
Enhanced Portal Functionality for Final Conditional Payment Process
Posted on November 10, 2015 by Rita Wilson
In its ‘What’s New’ section, CMS announced on November 9, 2015 that as part of the Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act of 2012 (the SMART Act), the MSPRP will be modified to include Final Conditional Payment (CP) process functionality…
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