Tag: no pay RAP

Remittance Advice Message for No Pay RAP penalty

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued another revision to change request 11855 – Penalty for Delayed Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) Submission – Implementation. The Change Request (CR) revision added remittance advice message information related to the No Pay RAP penalty. Home health agencies (HHAs) should note that Medicare Administrative Contractors…

Recommendations and Clarifications for HHAs on the No-Pay RAP

Beginning January 1, 2021, home health agencies (HHAs) will be required to submit a request for anticipated payment (RAP) that will be paid at 0 percent, prior to each claim. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the No-pay RAP policy in the CY 2020 Home Health Prospective Payment System Rate Update rule.…

CMS Revises Instructions for Submission of No Pay RAP

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised Change Request (CR) 11855 to update the Service Date reporting on the claim and some remarks  After the original CR was released, NAHC went back to CMS to ask exactly how a home health agency should document on the claim those situations where a date could…