Home Health Claims Filing
The Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Claims/Attachments option (FISS Main Menu Option 02) allows you to enter home health Requests for Anticipated Payments (RAPs) and final claims. The following provides screen prints and field descriptions for each FISS claim page and identifies which fields are required for RAPs, final claims, and home health outpatient claims, and the data required in those fields. Information is also provided about specials claims filing situations.
For more information about the Home Health Prospective Payment System (HH PPS), go to the Home Health PPS Web page available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site.
There are six claim pages within FISS:
- Claim Page 01 – Entering a RAP or Claim
- Claim Page 02 – Entering a RAP or Claim
- Claim Page 03 – Entering a RAP or Claim
- Claim Page 04 - Link to "Claim Page 04 – Entering a RAP or Claim"
- Claim Page 05 - Link to "Claim Page 05 – Entering a RAP or Claim"
- Claim Page 06 - Link to "Claim Page 06 – Entering a RAP or Claim"
Additional Resources
- UB-04
Overview Fact Sheet

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This CMS fact sheet offers an overview of the UB-04, also known as the Form CMS-1450, which is the uniform institutional provider hardcopy claim form suitable for use in billing multiple third party payers.
- Attending Physician Editing
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Change Request (CR) 6856 expands editing to verify that the attending physician's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is valid, and to ensure that the attending physician is enrolled in Medicare and is in Medicare's Provider Enrollment, Change and Ownership System (PECOS). The CMS has a PECOS Monthly Ordering and Referring
report available that contains the NPI
for all physicians who are of a type/specialty that are eligible to order
and refer beneficiaries for home health services. For additional information
refer to the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Matters® article MM6856
. - Consolidated
Billing Master Supply List

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This list is maintained and updated annually by CMS and contains the nonroutine supplies that are included in consolidated billing under the HH PPS.
- Timely Filing Requirements
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Section 6404 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) amended the timely filing requirements to reduce the maximum time period for submission of all Medicare claims to one calendar year after the date of service.
- Medicare
Claims Processing Manual (CMS Pub. 100-04, Ch. 10)

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Chapter 10 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual describes bill processing requirements that are applicable only to home health agencies.
- National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)

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Refer to the NUBC website for a complete description of all the items included on the CMS-1450 (UB-04) claim form.

