Medicare Claims Update
Fiscal Intermediaries (FI's) process Medicare claims for services provided in facilities such as Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF's), Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (ORF's), and Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (CORF's). These FI's have web sites that provide a vast amount of information regarding Medicare coverage and billing. Your billing office will know the identity of the FI that processes your claims.
United Government Services (UGS) is the largest Medicare Part A Intermediary processing over 30 million claims nationwide each year. UGS serves customers in (insert association's state MI or WI) as well as many other states. The following UGS website contains valuable information that includes: the publication "Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Outpatient Services Educational Update", Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Local Medical Review Policies, Medicare Memos (the monthly newsletter from UGS), links to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) websites and more.
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