Issue Date

50.4.1 - Issue Date (Rev. 66, Issued: 01-07-11, Effective: 02-08-11, Implementation: 02-08-11) The date the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes a change request (CR). When a CR has passed through all phases of the change management process, it is then ready for publication; that is, the CMS is ready to make the instructions contained in the CR available to contractors, maintainers, providers, beneficiaries and/or any group or organization that may be affected, as appropriate. The CMS publishes CRs by posting them as Transmittals, on the CMS Web site. Note: The issue date is named “Date” on the Transmittal form, One-Time Notification, Recurring Update Notification, and the Standard CR forms. It is sometimes referred to as the “transmittal date.”