DHCS identifies another glitch in issuing primary care rate increase for CHDP claims The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has experienced various difficulties issuing the Affordable Care Act primary care rate increase funds on Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Program claims. Before the rate increases were implemented, some practices had been instructed by DHCS to bill CHDP claims at their Medi-Cal rates. This caused concern – based on DHCS’s pricing logic of paying the lesser of Medicare’s rate or the billed charges – that some practices would not qualify for the retroactive increases once the systems were updated to ... March 17, 2015 Medi-Cal, Medicare CHDP, Child Health and Disabilityh Prevention Program, Affordable Care Act, DHCS 0 0 Comment Read More »
