Medicare Program Integrity Manual (Pub. 100-08), Ch. 5 § 5.19

DME MAC Tracking

Last amended: 2020Year: 2020Length: 98 wordsOfficial source
5.19 - DME MAC Tracking (Rev. 10190; Issued: 06-19-2020; Effective: 01-01-2020; Implementation: 07-01- 2020) The DME MACs shall develop the capability to track ADMC requests in order to assure that decisions are rendered in a timely and appropriate fashion. DME MACs shall also develop the capability to ensure that: 1) items for which an affirmative ADMC decision was made are not denied as not meeting the medical necessary requirements of the policy, and 2) claims for item that received a negative ADMC decision are denied as not covered, unless additional medical documentation submitted with the claims supports coverage.
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