Medicare Financial Management Manual (Pub. 100-06), Ch. 4 § 70.17.3
Debts RTA by Treasury as Dispute Response not Received Timely (RX)
70.17.3 - Debts RTA by Treasury as Dispute Response not Received Timely (RX)
(Rev. 11787; Issued:01-19-23; Effective: 04-21-23; Implementation:04-21-23)
The Treasury returns debts with this status code because the dispute response was not received timely.
The contractor shall research and resolve the debts in a RX status that have a combined principal and
interest balance greater than or equal to $25 within 30 business days in order to determine the current
status of the debts. No further action is necessary if the debts are already in a recalled status. The
contractors shall add a comment on the HIGLAS comment screen reflecting any action taken, the date of
the RTA report in which the debts appear on and the financial statement reporting quarter in which the
debts were resolved.
RX debts that have a combined principal and interest balance of less than $25
• Contractor Utilizing HIGLAS shall allow HIGLAS to systematically change the status code
to‘DR-RTN-CS’(Debt Returned from Cross-Servicing) which will allow the debt to be identified
and written off by the HIGLAS Auto Write-Off Program.
• Contractors NOT Utilizing HIGLAS shall submit these debts for close-out.
If the debts are still valid and eligible for referral to Treasury, the contractors shall re-refer the debts to
Treasury, even if a response to the disputes were previously submitted to Treasury. The contractors shall
not issue a second Intent to Refer (ITR) letter.