CMS Issues Instructions on 12-Month Maximum Claim Submission Timeline; NAHC Registers Concern

Section 6404 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) reduces the maximum period for submitting Medicare fee-for-service claims to “a period ending one calendar year after the date of services,” with exceptions that may be specified by the secretary of Health and Human Services (NAHC Report , 4/8/2010). The effective date Congress established…