As you are probably aware, Congress has changed the Medicare Fee schedule effective with dates of service on and after June 1, 2010. This represents a 2.2 % increase in the conversion factor.
We are aware of these changes and are working to get the new fee schedules loaded so you can make the necessary corrections to your contacts.
There are a few things you need to do before hand if you are using the contracts and fee schedules modules. If you do not use these modules, you may disregard this message.
1. For your Medicare 2010 Fee schedules that you have already created, change the contract stop date to May 31, 2010. Doing this will prevent showing false positives in your payment audit system. Any underpayments already in your payment audit system showing underpaid, will be automatically removed on your next update.
2. We will notify you by email, once we have made the new data available on our webservice, this could take some time, but we are working hard on the update.
3. Once you receive the email from us, stating that the new data is available, you will need to run the check for CMS updates from the Utilities menu, and then create new Medicare contracts with a start date of June 1, 2010. Please DO NOT simply delete, or update the current Medicare 2010 contracts with the new fee schedule amount! Our Payment Audit System looks at the date of service in order to apply to correct fee schedule amount, so you must have two Medicare Fee Schedules for 2010 for every payment type you currently use.
4. Once the new contracts are loaded, DataPlus will then go backwards and identify any new underpayments based on the new fee schedule.
As always, if you have any questions, please let us know, and we appreciate your business!
Sincerely,
Frank G. Trew
Founder / COO
ftrew@mydataplus.com
