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Medicare transition is less than two weeks away

September 16, 2013, is the cutover date for transition of the Medicare Part B fee-for-service contractor from Palmetto GBA to Noridian. Although efforts have been made to minimize the burden to practices and to ensure that physicians continue to receive their Medicare payments in a timely fashion after the transition, physician practices will have to make some changes in their processes, including but not limited to the following: •Electronic claim submitters must change the contractor ID (payor ID) on their transmissions. The new ID for the Northern California jurisdiction is ...