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]]> Comment on Expanding The Retail Clinic Business Model by VelociDoc http://feed-back.com/blog/2007/08/27/expanding-the-retail-clinic-business-model/#comment-2 VelociDoc Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:03:42 +0000 http://feed-back.com/blog/2007/08/29/expanding-the-retail-clinic-business-model/#comment-2 This is interesting information. At Practice Velocity (www.practicevelocity.com), we provide software solutions for over 500 urgent care clinics, of which some are retail clinics. This is the first that I have heard of a Medicare ban on these clinics. I believe that the clinic may have confused non-participation with legal issues. I do not believe that there is any Federal law that prohibits retail clinics from seeing Medicare patients. Retail clinics that serve Medicare patients may have to deal with several complicating issues: 1) coding would have to use CMS-standard codes 2) incident-to standards would have to be followed 3) compliance issues are more rigorous with CMS Note: I believe that all providers (even those who have opted out of Medicare) are required by Federal law to treat any Medicare beneficiary who presents with an emergency situation and to bill Medicare for these services. This is interesting information. At Practice Velocity (www.practicevelocity.com), we provide software solutions for over 500 urgent care clinics, of which some are retail clinics. This is the first that I have heard of a Medicare ban on these clinics. I believe that the clinic may have confused non-participation with legal issues. I do not believe that there is any Federal law that prohibits retail clinics from seeing Medicare patients. Retail clinics that serve Medicare patients may have to deal with several complicating issues:
1) coding would have to use CMS-standard codes
2) incident-to standards would have to be followed
3) compliance issues are more rigorous with CMS
Note: I believe that all providers (even those who have opted out of Medicare) are required by Federal law to treat any Medicare beneficiary who presents with an emergency situation and to bill Medicare for these services.

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