Hospital & Healthcare Management March 7, 2024
The CMS in the US has gone on to roll out numerous flexibilities on March 5 that look forward to helping the mounting financial challenges of providers in the wake of the cyberattack against Change Healthcare.
The agency has gone on to instruct Medicare administrative contractors, who go ahead and process claims for the government, to speed up provider requests so as to switch to novel clearinghouses and get around the Change outage. CMS happens to be also encouraging Medicare Advantage plans, Part D sponsors, as well as Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program managed care plans to kind of relax the prior authorization needs or offer advanced funding.
As per the agency, the providers can go ahead and submit...