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MLN Connects® Newsletter: March 16, 2023


News

  • HHS Releases Initial Guidance for Historic Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program for Price Applicability Year 2026
  • Quality Payment Program: 2021 Care Compare Performance Information
  • Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals: Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Reports
  • Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Program: March Feedback Report
  • Audiologists Can Furnish Certain Diagnostic Tests Without a Physician Order
  • Colorectal Cancer: Screening Saves Lives

Claims, Pricers and Codes

  • COVID-19: Don’t Report CR Modifier & DR Condition Code After Public Health Emergency
  • Split (or Shared) Critical Care Visits: Billing Correction
  • ICD-10-CM Coordination & Maintenance Committee: Meeting Materials & Deadlines
  • HCPCS Application Summaries & Coding Decisions: Non-Drug & Non-Biological Items & Services

Events

  • Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model Webinar: Strategies for Success Self-Assessment Tool — March 30

Publications

  • Medicare Secondary Payer: Don’t Deny Services & Bill Correctly
  • Behavioral Health Integration Services — Revised
  • Medicare Preventive Services — Revised

Posted 3/16/2023