Medicare to Stop Mailing Standard Paper Remittance (SPR) for Those Providers/Suppliers Also Receiving the Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA)
Beginning June 1, 2006, the SPR received through the mail will no longer be available to providers/suppliers who also receive an ERA, whether the ERA is received directly or through a billing agent, clearing house, or other entity representing a provider/supplier. In response to the provider/supplier communities continued need for SPRs, CMS has developed free software call Medicare Remit Easy Print (MREP) that gives providers/suppliers a tool to read and print a remittance advice (RA) from the HIPAA compliant Health Care Claim Payment/Advice (835) file. The MREP software was designed to incorporate new functionality to save providers/suppliers time and money. The paper output generated by MREP is similar to the SPR format. The CMS has worked with other payers to insure their acceptance of the SPR generated by the MREP software for Coordination of Benefit claim submission. Additionally, CMS has worked with clearinghouses to assure similar software is available to read and print an ERA for those providers/suppliers that utilize clearinghouse services. We encourage providers/suppliers currently receiving the ERA, who don't use software to read and print RAs from these files, to begin using MREP or other similar software before the June 1st cutoff. Please go to http://www.wpsmedicare.com/provider/mrep.shtml for further information regarding MREP software. We appreciate your continued cooperation as the Medicare program moves toward a more electronic environment.
For More Information on SPR Suppression see the CMS MLN Matters article at:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0627.pdf 
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