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What is retroactive Medicaid? Retroactive Medicaid is a provision protected by federal law that ensures state Medicaid programs provide coverage to you, the beneficiary, at up to three months before their application date for unpaid medical bills.

What is a frequent reason for an insurance claim to be rejected?

Claim rejections (which don’t usually involve denial of payment) are often due to simple clerical errors, such as a patient’s name being misspelled, or digits in an ID number being transposed. These are quick fixes, but they do prolong the revenue cycle, so you want to avoid them at all costs.

What did state Medicaid director letter # 10-017 implement?

If such state edits result in additional savings to the state’s Medicaid program by promoting correct coding and reducing the error rate for claims payments, the state should recommend that the CMS add these edits to one or more of the sets of Medicaid NCCI edits. What guidance did State Medicaid Director Letter (SMDL) #10-017 implement?

When was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed?

SMDL #10-017 (PDF, 133.63 KB) issued on September 1, 2010 provided guidance on the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), as amended by the Health Care and Education Recovery Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152), together referred to as the “Affordable Care Act”, which were signed into law on March 23, 2010.

Is the CMS required to inform States about Medicaid?

In addition, the CMS was required to inform states on how they must incorporate these methodologies for claims filed under Medicaid.

When did CMS notify states of NCCI methodologies?

Section 1903 (r) (4) of the Act, as amended, required that the CMS notify states by September 1, 2010, of the NCCI methodologies that are “compatible” with claims filed with Medicaid, in order to promote correct coding and to control improper coding leading to inappropriate payment of claims under Medicaid.