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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:

Additional Resources

UB-04 Overview Fact SheetExternal PDF

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

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 ReferringExternal PDFreport 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 MM6856External PDF.

Consolidated Billing Master Supply ListZip File

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

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)External PDF

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)External Website

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

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