5010 Readiness: Medicare Extending 5010 Implementation Deadline till March 31, 2012

Plus: Avoid PO boxes on 5010, despite what your MAC tells you.

Sweating over the fact that your 5010 standard won't be in place by the Jan. 1 deadline? CMS has an early holiday gift for your practice, with the Nov. 17 announcement that it will not initiate enforcement action regarding 5010 until March 31, 2012.

Not a deadline shift: CMS stresses in its statement that the 5010 compliance date remains Jan. 1, 2012. However, the agency will not penalize practices that aren't using 5010 until after the new 90-day "discretionary enforcement period" ends in March, as long as practices can demonstrate [...]

- Published on 2012-01-11