Medicare Begins Recoupment of Advanced and Accelerated Payments
April 2, 2021 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Medicare Learning Network (MLN) article on April 1 concerning the Advanced and Accelerated Payment Program (AAPP). As our readers will recall, this was one of several programs the federal government made available to medical providers who were facing financial difficulty due to the public health emergency (PHE). Those choosing to avail themselves of these emergency disbursements were essentially taking out a loan. Those loans have now become…