The Biden administration announced the termination of a program that provided more than $2.55 billion in accelerated and advance Medicare payments to over 4,200 providers (hospitals and physicians) that suffered cash flow disruptions following the Change Healthcare cyberattack. CMS announced that Medicare payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will end on July 12.
Medicare Auditors Are Not Wound Care Specialists: Why Providers Win Appeals When the Full Story Finally Gets Read – Blog Post by Knicole Emanuel
We will have to wait to find out if audits will lessen now that the new pricing structure has dramatically decreased the monetary incentive for audits.
