On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, CMS will release a national provider Comparative Billing Report (CBR) centered on Independent Physical Therapy Providers who practice in the outpatient setting and bill Medicare with the KX Modifier. The CBR is similar to the original study distributed last summer except this current study will focus on 2010 billing data and is being sent to 5000 additional or different providers.
The CBRs are produced by Safeguard Services under contract with CMS and contain actual data-driven tables and graphs with an explanation of findings that compare a provider's billing and payment patterns to those of their peers located in the state and across the nation. CMS has received feedback from a number of providers that this kind of data is very helpful to them and encouraged us to produce more CBRs. These reports are not available to anyone but the providers who receive them. To ensure privacy, CMS presents only summary billing information; no patient or case-specific data is included. These reports are an example of a tool that helps providers comply with Medicare billing rules and improve the level of care they furnish to their Medicare patients. For more information and to review a sample of the Outpatient Physical Therapy Services CBR, please visit the CBR Services website at http://www.CBRservices.com or call the SafeGuard Services' Provider Help Desk, CBR Support Team at 530-896-7080. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
