For payers of claims for liability insurance (including self-insurance), no-fault insurance and workers’ compensation, all “responsible reporting entities” (“RREs”) had been required to begin submitting claim files to CMS’s Coordination of Benefits Carrier between April 1, 2010 and June 30, 2010, based upon a predetermined schedule. That April 1, 2010 reporting date has now been postponed until January 1, 2011. The delay in implementation will allow CMS to continue addressing the surprising number of policy and technical questions that are still being raised by carriers and others in CMS’s ongoing series of Town Hall Teleconferences.
CMS said that it would post the next version of the “Section 111 NGHP User Guide” and a number of policy alerts this week.