CMS Announces Webinars for Upcoming Enhancements to the Medicare Secondary Payment Recovery Portal (MSPRP) and Commercial Repayment Center Portal (CRCP)

CMS  announced two webinars for Upcoming Enhancements to the Medicare Secondary Payment Recovery Portal (MSPRP) and Commercial Repayment Center Portal (CRCP).

More to the point, the webinars will be addressing the fact that that effective April 1, 2019, electronic payment functionality will be added to both the MSPRP and the CRCP.  Taking place on March 13, 2019 for MSPRP users and March 14, 2019 for CRCP users, the webinars will provide more information on this new feature.

Practitioner’s Note: This enhancement could make paying outstanding Medicare conditional payments so much easier for debtors. Instead of sending a check and ensuring it’s applied to the proper claim, this function will hopefully give payers assurance that payment has been received and applied in a prompt manner and cut down on error when applying payments to claims that are not in final demand status. Additionally, it may be interesting to see how this may impact refunds as well.

The Gordon & Rees Medicare Compliance team will continue to follow these trends and update you as new developments arise.