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Cost report reopenings

December 23, 2025
This gives you the acceptance and denial criteria for a reopening.

Wage index overview

December 23, 2025
This says that the wage indexes are updated annually, based on a survey of wages and wage-related costs of short-term acute hospital cost reports.

Medicare-Medicaid crossover bad debt accounting classification

December 23, 2025
CMS has issued guidance on Medicare’s longstanding policy on Medicare-Medicaid bad debts claimed on a cost report for dual-eligible beneficiaries.

SSI ratio realignment for cost reporting periods starting before October 1, 2013

December 23, 2025
This pertains to submitting SSI ratio realignment requests to First Coast.

Modifier AI

December 23, 2025
The principal physician of record appends modifier “-AI” to their initial hospital care or nursing facility visit code. All other physicians who perform an initial evaluation on this patient bill without modifier "-AI" to indicate specialty…

MLN Connects for July 15, 2025

December 23, 2025
This edition includes information on a proposed physician payment rule.

Improve your billing of hospital inpatient or observation discharge day management codes

December 23, 2025
Effective January 1, 2023, changes were made to hospital inpatient or observation discharge day management codes. Review this article for tips on proper code submissions.

Modifier 50

December 23, 2025
Modifier 50 applies to bilateral procedures performed on both sides in the same operative session, except as indicated. Avoid claim denials and future appeals due to incorrect claim submissions by properly applying modifier 50 when these in…

Anatomical modifiers

December 23, 2025
Procedures performed during separate patient encounters, at separate anatomic sites, or on separate specimens, may require a modifier be reported. Avoid claim denials or appeals due to incorrect claim submissions by properly applying anatom…

Requesting Medicare secondary payer conditional payments

December 23, 2025
Conditional payments are Medicare payments for Medicare covered services for which another insurer is primary payer, made under the condition they are subject to repayment if and when the primary payer makes payment.
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