Frequently Asked Questions are used to provide additional information and/or statutory guidance not found in State Medicaid Director Letters, State Health Official Letters, or CMCS Informational Bulletins. The different sets of FAQs as originally released can be accessed below.
Frequently Asked Questions
Each physician must self-attest to being a qualified provider. It is not appropriate for a state to rely on a modifier to a claim for the initial self-attestation. Under the final rule, states are not required to independently verify the eligibility of each and every physician who might qualify for higher payment. Therefore, it is important that documentation exist that the physicians themselves supplied a proper attestation. That attestation has two parts. Physicians must attest to an appropriate specialty designation and also must further attest to whether that status is based on either being Board certified or to having the proper claims history. Once the signed self-attestation is in the hands of the Medicaid agency, claims may be identified for higher payment through the use of a modifier.
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 94276
The certification must be current. If it has lapsed but the physician still practices as an eligible specialist the self-attestation would need to be supported with a 60 percent claims history.
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
FAQ ID: 94296
As with all Medicaid services, the state in which the beneficiary is determined eligible (state A) sets the payment rate for services. Therefore, state A would be responsible for paying using the methodology it had chosen with respect to determining the appropriate Medicare rate and would not be required to pay the rate the physician would receive from state B.
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 94361
The correction was published in the Federal Register on December 14, 2012. In it CMS clarified that states must reimburse providers the lower or the provider’s charge or the applicable Medicare rate.
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 94376
The regular administrative federal match rate is applicable to administrative costs associated with implementation of this rule. Section 1905(dd) of the Social Security Act (the Act) authorizes increased Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) only for eligible services provided by eligible providers pursuant to section 1902(a)(13)(C) of the Act
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 94226
We addressed the treatment of bonus payments and other incentive arrangements in terms of identifying the 2009 base rate in the final rule and take this opportunity to clarify that such arrangements are similarly excluded from the methodology for determining the rate differential.
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Date: January 28, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 94236
States may accept the certificate and need not verify. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expects states to make physicians aware that they are responsible for providing accurate information.
Date: January 27, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 92686
The final rule specifies that such payments must be made no less frequently than quarterly, as does the final preprint issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Date: January 27, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
FAQ ID: 92691
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approves CHIP programs as stand-alone or Medicaid expansions. Information on whether or not a particular state operates a stand-alone or expansion program is available at http://medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Childrens-Health-Insurance-Program-CHIP/Downloads/Map-CHIP-Program-Designs-by-State-.pdf.
Date: January 27, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Autism
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 92696
FQHCs and RHCs are required by law to be paid at least prospective payment system (PPS) for core primary care services. Physician services are core FQHC and RHC services and, therefore, should not be reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis.
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Date: January 27, 2013
Topics:
Affordable Care Act
Medicaid and CHIP Program (MACPro)
Subtopics:
Final Rule
Medicaid Expansion
Primary Care Services
FAQ ID: 92701