06/06/16
Medicare Audits for Services Exceeding $3700 to Begin
StrategicHealthSolutions (SHS), LLC was awarded as the Supplemental Medical Review Contractor (SMRC), a Specialty Medical Review Contractor, supporting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The SMRC will perform and/or provide support for a variety of tasks aimed at lowering the improper payment rates and increasing efficiencies of the medical review functions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) extended the outpatient therapy cap exception process until December 31, 2017 and modified the requirement for manual medical review for services over the $3700 therapy thresholds. One of the tasks SMRC
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