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Policy: BlueCross Blue Shield of Rhode Island covers interim billing for payment of services provided by an acute rehabilitation/skilled nursing facility, hospice or home health agency. Interim billing is covered for acute care hospitals only if the hospital is covered at a per diem rate.
The interim payment will be included on the CAH's cost report that begins during the payment year, and will be reconciled to the actual amounts at final settlement of the cost report. Example-If a hospital has a December 31 fiscal year end, and attests as a meaningful user on August 1, 2011: The latest filed cost report when the CAH attests will most likely be the fiscal year end December 31, 2010 cost report.