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  • 1.  COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-09-2020 16:01
    RBMA continues to monitor CMS policy and rules around COVID-19 initiatives.  One is the Medicare Advanced Payments program. 

    The latest update is  from a colleagues at Zotec Partners  is that there is no guidance on MACS distributing these payments as yet.  It seems that HHS is directly transferring funds to providers for this first wave (electronically, e.g., directly to tax id numbers). Providers may be notified soon on this.   Allocation of funds is based on amount received from Medicare under fee-for-service (not MA) by provider from Medicare in 2019.  

    More updates as we receive information from Congressional staff....

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    Robert Still FRBMA
    Executive Director
    Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA)
    Fairfax VA
    (703) 621-3363
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  • 2.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-10-2020 08:27
    I have read that 10.25% interest will begin accruing on day 241 for any remaining amount that has not been recouped by CMS.  However, this is not mentioned on the CMS Fact Sheet and I am trying to determine the validity of this.  Anyone have any additional information on this?

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    Amanda Gillum
    Practice Manager
    Bloomington Radiology SC
    Normal IL
    (309) 452-1788
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  • 3.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-10-2020 11:51
    Our group submitted a request for the advance payment on 4/1/20 (via email) and received the funds on 4/8/20. The MAC did send an email notifying us of the payment amount but it arrived a day after we received the funds. Surprisingly quick turnaround.

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    Blair Dick RT
    Administrator
    Eisenhower Radiology Medical Group
    Rancho Mirage CA
    (760) 250-4961
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  • 4.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-13-2020 13:52

    We received our Advanced Payment Medicare deposit over the weekend, but only approximately half of what we had requested based upon calculated prior Noridian payments.  We haven't received any notification from Noridian as of today.  Have other groups received less than requested?  Did you all eventually receive an email with details?

     

    Thank you,

     

    Wendy Crist|Practice Manager

    Diagnostic Radiologists P.C.

    (503)251-6855 phone

    (503)261-6786 fax

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  • 5.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-13-2020 13:56
    Are you sure it wasn't the Provider Relief Fund payment that so many other practices received this weekend? (It comes across as an ACH with "HHSPAYMENT" or something similar to that.



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  • 6.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-13-2020 14:03

    We received both this weekend.  One "HHS Stimulus", one "Noridian" with no details but way too large for anything but APM.

     

    Wendy Crist|Practice Manager

    Diagnostic Radiologists P.C.

    (503)251-6855 phone

    (503)261-6786 fax

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  • 7.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-13-2020 18:52
    We received our direct deposit from "HHS Stimulus" last Thursday with no details.​

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    William Kisse
    COO
    Washington Open MRI, Inc.
    Rockville, MD
    bill@womri.com
    (301) 424-4888
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/billkisse/
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  • 8.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-15-2020 10:09

    The Provider Relief website (https://www.hhs.gov/provider-relief/index.html indicates that "Within 30 days of receiving the payment, providers must sign an attestation confirming receipt of the funds and agreeing to the terms and conditions of payment. The portal for signing the attestation will be open the week of April 13, 2020, and will be linked on this page."  

     

    Has anyone been able to access the attestation and, if so, could you provide a link to it please?

     




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  • 9.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-15-2020 10:16
    Hi Larry

    I don't think the attestation is available yet.  I'm sure there will be a link on that page when it is.

    It is worth reviewing the Terms and Conditions carefully, especially the limitation on paying salaries above federal executive level II ($197,300) and the accounting requirements outlined at 45 CFR § 75.302 before you start doing anything with those funds.  I'm guessing there will be auditing at some point in the future.

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    David Smith FACMPE
    Executive Director
    United Imaging Consultants
    Mission KS
    (785) 393-8387
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  • 10.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-16-2020 09:58

    The attestation link is apparently now open: https://covid19.linkhealth.com/#/step/1

     

    Barbara F. Rubel MBA, FRBMA

    Senior VP, Marketing & Client Services

    President, FRBMA

     

    brubel@msnllc.com

    904-657-2038 (Office) | 770-823-3597 (Cell)
    MSNLLC.com

     




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  • 11.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-16-2020 16:40
    If you received the payment in your bank account by ACH and you do not qualify for the payment
    call your business banker and refuse the entry with code R-23. There is nothing on the portal's  attestation for returning the funds. I called the CARES provider relief number (866-569-3522) and got this information.

    ACH Return Code R23 – Credit Entry Refused by Receiver. Description: Receiver returned Entry because, for instance, minimum or exact amount not remitted. Any credit Entry that is refused by the Receiver may be returned by the RDFI.
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    James E. Hamilton, MHA, FRBMA
    Consultant
    Medical Business Management





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  • 12.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-16-2020 17:54
    Thank you Barbara!

    Larry Buchwalter
    Sent from my iPhone
    Please pardon any typos



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  • 13.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-16-2020 17:58

    Thanks Barbara!

     




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  • 14.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-22-2020 15:43
    Anyone having difficulty completing the Attestation?   The system is rejecting our group's TIN.   The support contact telephone number (866) 569 - 3522 is not functioning.

    Paul Allan
    Practice Administrator
    Radiology Consultants
    Fairbanks, Alaska



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  • 15.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-22-2020 15:45

    Yes...one TIN was fine, one was rejected as you described.   Call to support was left on hold for 30+, then disconnected.  Will try again, but how in the heck can the TIN not be identified?   A bit frustrating, but thankful none the less.

     

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  • 16.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-15-2020 14:27

    It also goes on to say that if no attestation is signed and the provider keeps the money, then the provider is bound by the attestation.  This means the provider, at the very least, will not balance bill any COVID patients for care.  Since most carriers are sending out notices that they will be paying COVID claims with no patient out of pocket, that provision may not be worrisome. 

     

    Be safe out there!




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  • 17.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 09-15-2020 09:52

    I am not receiving forum activity.  Is it just me or is it really this quiet?  Thanks to my RBMA friends.  I miss you! 

     

     

    Wendy Lomers CPA, MBA, FRBMA

     

     

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  • 18.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 09-15-2020 09:57

    Wendy:

     

    Calm before the storm I fear. ��

     

    David A. Myrice, CPA, MBA

    Director of Practice Management

    4500 S. Garnett Road, Suite 919

    Tulsa, OK 74146

     

    dmyrice@zotecpartners.com

    419-290-7326 – Mobile

    855-917-2078 – Fax

    www.zotecpartners.com

     

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  • 19.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 09-15-2020 09:58

    It has been fairly quiet but I am getting them.  You might check your set up.  For some reason I was dropped of the coding forum for about 2 months before I realized it.  I didn't terminate it so I don't know why it happened.

     




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  • 20.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 09-15-2020 10:17
    I just posted so let's see if it comes through.
    Maybe you can't hear anyone with their face masks on!!!
    JK

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    Douglas G. Kraus, CPA
    Chief Financial Officer
    South Texas Radiology Group, P.A.
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  • 21.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 06-07-2021 15:32

    Wendy,

    We received our Healthcare Providers Lost Revenue Grant last week and, while others received an email about it, we did not.  Because I had applied for the Advanced Payments a few days earlier, that's what I originally thought it was, and I was surprised because it was about 1/3 of what I had expected. 

     

    Today I received an email that the Medicare Advance Payment will be hitting our account tomorrow.  The amount was close to what I expected.  Very confusing when money shows up without any explanation.  I definitely appreciate the added cash flow, however!

     

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  • 22.  RE: COVID-19 CMS Advanced Payments

    Posted 04-15-2020 16:13
    Bob,
    I know things are evolving quickly with lots of conflicting information, but unfortunately what your colleague gave you is misleading.  This article from Healthcare Administrative Partners talks about the money from HHS and correctly says that it is not connected with the Medicare Advanced Payments.  Two separate things, and practices can get both.

    Hang in there!

    John

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    John Pugh
    Pugh Healthcare Business Advisors
    Hopewell NJ
    (609) 644-4479
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