Happy to report back, Tom.
It turns out this company saved me from a 4% cut on all our Medicare payments this year. Well, they sort of helped me...
What we are talking about is the 4% cut on 2018 payments if you did not jump through the MU hoops in 2016.
Although we got an (automatic) exemption in 2015 and therefore had no cut in 2017,
for 2016 we decided the amount of work was too onerous and we would just take the cut this year.
After we received a notice that we would, in fact, be receiving that cut, I read Peter's post above, and looked into the company. Sure enough, they did guarantee that for the small (!) fee of $299, that they will get your 4% penalty "reconsidered". I thought about that and realized that they would likely only make such a guarantee if they were quite sure that they would be successful, regardless of the circumstances of the provider involved. In other words, that the reversal of the penalty was essentially automatic.
So I looked up the "reconsideration form" myself and it literally took 5 minutes to fill out. I put a generic -but truthful- "hardship" on the form and today got the notice that our penalty was reversed. We will not get a 4% penalty for the rest of 2018, and will get a check for the 4% already removed so far this year.
Thank you, National Computer Services Consultants. Sort of.
Priceless.
It is this type of opportunism that makes legitimate services offerings in healthcare a diminishing opportunity.
I'm glad to see you went to school on them and found a preferable solution. Bravo!
