New Medicare ABN required Jan. 1
October 24, 2011The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is delaying required use of its revised Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) form (CMS-R-131) until Jan. 1, 2012.
Health care practitioners can continue to use older versions of the ABN form – the ABN-G (Form CMS-R-131G), ABN-L (Form CMS-R-131L), and NEMB (Form CMS-20007) – until that time.
The CMS had planned to require use of the new ABN form on Oct. 1, 2011.
For additional information, see the “Fee for Service (FFS)” section on the CMS Beneficiary Notice Initiative Web page (www.cms.gov/NBI).
