01/26/21
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an updated
As usual, CMS lists its updates at the beginning of each User Guide chapter on a “Summary” page. Reviewing these pages indicates that CMS has made updates to Chapter II (Registration Procedures), Chapter III (Policy Guidance), Chapter IV (Technical Guidance), and Chapter V (Appendices). Overall, CMS made various changes to its Section 111 reporting directives, most notably making Policy Number (Field 54) a key field and expanding ORM termination dates up to 75 years. Also, CMS issued a retraction regarding one item addressed in its prior Version 6.1 update.
The following provides a general overview of the updates made by CMS in User Guide (Version 6.2):