Medicare to begin releasing payments:

On Friday, CMS notified carriers to start making payments on claims held with DOS 4/1/10 that had met the floor payment criteria.

There were massive amounts of claims being held. Carrier systems are unable to process these all at once, so they will begin processing claims at the system capacity on a daily basis until all claims have been processed. It could take up to a week to clear our some of the held claims, but all carriers are processing claims to capacity as of Friday.