tci Part B Insider - 2019 Issue 4

Physician Note: CMS Offers New Option for Online ADR Letter Exchange

CMS’s burden-reduction rodeo continues with new ways to share documentation requests. You will now have the option to receive the CMS additional documentation request (ADR) letter sent to you electronically versus in the mail. After repeated requests from Medicare providers to go digital, CMS decided to streamline its processes, the agency indicates in CR 11003. Why? CMS successfully instituted a pilot program “supporting the electronic version of the ADR letter known as Electronic Medical Documentation Request (eMDR) via the esMD [Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation] system,” notes CR 11003. Keeping in line with its Patients-Over-Paperwork methodology...

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