Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are mailing notifications to agencies determined to be noncompliant with quality reporting requirements for 2017, CMS recently announced. This will affect the 2019 annual payment update.
 
Agencies receiving “a letter of non-compliance may submit a request for reconsideration to CMS via email no later than 30 days after the date the non-compliance letter is issued,” CMS posted on its home health quality reporting website. “If you receive a notice of non-compliance and would like to request a reconsideration, see the instructions in your notification and on the home health quality reporting reconsiderations and exception & extension page.”
 
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