[Laurel]

If Medicare is requesting a reimbursement due to the patient was in a SNF, is there anyway to get paid on these by adding them on to the end of the rental period?

[Alpha]

Yes, you can add it to the end of the capped-rental period, or you can change your billing date to the discharge date.

[HEATHER]

Yes you can. If the patient was in the SNF for only a partial calendar month, you can just change your service date to = the discharge date and rebill. But if the patient was in the SNF for the entire calendar month then yes you can add them onto the end of the rental. You would just submit those months with a narrative that says "Please extend CMN for remainder of rental months."

[morkin5000]

A problem I have seen is sometimes it takes months for Medicare to decide to recoop!