{"id":8574,"date":"2024-07-02T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:40:45","slug":"payment-policy-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/payment-policy-july-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Payment Policy (July 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures, and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources\"><strong>healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Discarded Drugs &amp; Biologicals<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">Effective 6\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewed with no changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Evaluation &amp; Management Professional Services<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">Effective 6\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">\n<ul>\n<li>Removal of expired codes<\/li>\n<li>Removal of Inter-professional Telephone, Internet and Electronic Health Record Consults section<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Serious Reportable Events<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">Effective 6\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">\n<ul>\n<li>Added additional language to support what falls under SRE categories<\/li>\n<li>Added modifiers for Hospital Inpatient Claims<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Timely Filing<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">Effective 6\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">\n<ul>\n<li>Correction to the filing limit typo of 90 days to 365 days in the paragraph for Medicare Participating and Non-Participating Providers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"184\">Modifier<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">Effective 3\/1\/2024<\/td>\n<td width=\"184\">\n<ul>\n<li>Added clarifying billing requirements for SA Modifier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you have any questions about the information in this notice, please contact Health New England Provider Experience at (800) 842-4464, extension 5000. A representative is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. You may also send an email to <a href=\"mailto:providerrelations@hne.com\">providerrelations@hne.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health New England is committed to reviewing our internal procedures, and defining coverage and billing guidelines with applicable laws and industry standards to ensure our policies are appropriate. To access payment policies, please visit\u00a0healthnewengland.org\/Providers\/Resources. Discarded Drugs &amp; Biologicals Effective 6\/1\/2024 Reviewed with no changes Evaluation &amp; Management Professional Services Effective 6\/1\/2024 Removal of expired codes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-2ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}