Functional Limitations Reporting Independence Day?

Were You Setting off Fireworks on July 1st?

Medicare's  Functional Limitations Reporting Deadline 
Depending upon when you read this post  because I'm writing  it the Fourth of July weekend.  All the fireworks from the July 1, 2013 Medicare deadline for functional limitation reporting has come and gone.  You might have been preparing for months ahead of time and it was just like any other day in the clinic.  

Yet for others of you it might have been a last minute rush and you're not quite sure you got everything right.  I know in my clinic we are still tweaking our systems as we get paid or not paid claims back from Medicare.  

We are just taking it step by step trying to streamline our clinic flow as we look for ways to be as efficient as possible while attempting to honor the intent of the law.

My Seven Observations on the Government's Fireworks FLR Show
I know it sounds crazy (and it is) but I couldn't keep my mind from relating our Fourth of July celebration this year to Medic