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tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 36
Physician Notes: Government Shutdown Halts DC Medicaid Payments
Plus: Modifier 77 is your friend for diagnostic ER services.
Although the government shutdown hasn’t impacted your Medicare payments or your enrollment systems, it could still impact your bottom line. Officials in Washington, DC confirmed on Oct. 7 that the city would not make Medicaid payments during the shutdown, halting $89.2 million in payments that were expected to go out the door last week but did not, the Washington Business Journal reported.
Officials in the District of Columbia told providers to keep submitting claims as always, and that those claims would be paid after Congress opened the...
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