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CMS-1403-FC would render the facility financially liable for the transport. Response: We are not making the new exception in §424.36(b)(6) for nonemergency ambulance transports retroactive to January 1, 2008, and are not making an exception for good faith efforts to comply with the regulation as it existed prior to this final rule with comment period. There would be significant legal issues if we were to make the rule retroactive to January 1, 2008 or to waive the requirements as they existed prior to this final rule. Moreover, apart from the legal constraints, we are not persuaded that either course of action is warranted. The CY 2008 PFS final rule did not create any new burden for ambulance providers and suppliers (and, to the contrary, made it easier for ambulance providers and suppliers to comply with the beneficiary signature requirement for emergency transports). It did, however, clarify our longstanding policy that providers and suppliers must make reasonable efforts to obtain the beneficiary’s signature before submitting the claim and that it was not sufficient for providers to submit the claim (utilizing the exception at §424.36(b)(5)) simply because the beneficiary was able to sign the claim at the time of transport. We also clarified that only providers, 768
CMS-1403-FC and not suppliers, may utilize the exception at §424.36(b)(5), consistent with the plain language of the exception. To the extent that, following the November 27, 2007 final rule, ambulance providers and suppliers have found it difficult to obtain the beneficiary’s signature for nonemergency transports (because they had not previously been following our rules), we have addressed their concerns in two ways. First, on July 24, 2008, we placed guidance on the CMS Web site at www.cms.hhs.gov/AmbulanceFeeSchedule/downloads/Guidance_On_ Beneficiary_Signature_Requirements_for_Ambulance_Claims .pdf that reiterated our position that ambulance providers and suppliers may utilize the exception at §424.36(b)(4), which allows facilities to sign on behalf of the beneficiary, and explained that such facilities do not assume liability for payment of the services simply by signing on behalf of the beneficiary. Second, in this final rule we are finalizing our proposal to expand the exception in §424.36(b)(6) to nonemergency transports. The new exception is effective for “claims” filed on or after January 1, 2009. Therefore, if claims have been held and are still within the timely filing limit, as specified in §424.44, the claims may be submitted to Medicare for payment in accordance with the new exception. 769
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CMS-1403-FC 3 1. Electronically. Yo
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CMS-1403-FC 5 FOR FURTHER INFORMATI
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CMS-1403-FC 7 Trisha Brooks, (410)7
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CMS-1403-FC 9 ● The physician sel
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CMS-1403-FC 11 Schedule C. Malpract
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CMS-1403-FC 13 3. Beneficiary Signa
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CMS-1403-FC 15 A. Summary of Issues
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CMS-1403-FC 17 XIII. Waiver of Prop
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CMS-1403-FC 21 E/M Evaluation and m
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CMS-1403-FC 25 OSCAR Online Survey
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CMS-1403-FC 27 WAMP Widely availabl
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CMS-1403-FC 29 2. Practice Expense
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CMS-1403-FC 31 extent practicable a
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CMS-1403-FC 33 AMA's Current Proced
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CMS-1403-FC 35 Payment = [(RVU work
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CMS-1403-FC 37 legislation, the PFS
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CMS-1403-FC We received no comments
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Code CMS-1403-FC 2008/9 Description
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CMS-1403-FC jeopardizes beneficiary
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CMS-1403-FC Response: We understand
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