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Posting Date: 08/22/2022
Advance Communication Engine (NGS-ACE) System Edit Module for Electronic Claim Submission
Advance Communication Engine (NGS-ACE) System Edit Module for Electronic Claim Submission We are diligently working on enhancing NGS-ACE for providers in Jurisdiction 6 (Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnes...
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Posting Date: 08/18/2022
New Gamification Course Now Available in Medicare Arcades!
New Gamification Course Now Available in Medicare Arcades! Medicare University is expanding with a new gamification course in Medicare Arcades. You can now find the course, Introduction to Hospice B...
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Posting Date: 08/18/2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, August 18, 2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, August 18, 2022 Creating a Roadmap for the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency News Creating a Roadmap for the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Eme...
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Posting Date: 08/18/2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 18, 2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 18, 2022 Discontinuing Use of Certificates of Medical Necessity & Durable Medical Equipment Information Forms News CMS Discontinuing the Use of Certifi...
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Posting Date: 08/17/2022
CMS Identifies National System Issue
CMS Identifies National System Issue CMS identified a national system issue, which may have inadvertently adjusted previously processed Part B claims with dates of service (DOS) on or after January 1,...
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Posting Date: 08/17/2022
Medicare Mobile Has Expanded
Medicare Mobile Has Expanded We’ve expanded Medicare Mobile so you can stay up-to-date on the latest Medicare news. Joining is simple, text NEWS to 37702 to receive exclusive notifications straight to...
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Posting Date: 08/15/2022
New Enrollment Articles Added to Authorization and Accreditation
New Enrollment Articles Added to Authorization and Accreditation We’ve added Eligible Institutional Providers and Eligible Method II Providers articles to our website to provide clarification of Insti...
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Posting Date: 08/15/2022
Staying Up To Date on Vaccines
Staying Up To Date on Vaccines It's important to stay up to date on vaccines. Vaccines protect your patients from serious illness and can keep them out of the hospital. Talk with your patients about w...
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Posting Date: 08/11/2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 11, 2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 11, 2022 Monkeypox & Smallpox Vaccines: New Product Codes News Monkeypox & Smallpox Vaccines: New Product Codes Payment Allowance Update for COVID-19 Mono...
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Posting Date: 08/10/2022
October 2022 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File Hosts
October 2022 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File Hosts For the upcoming October 2022 Release: For Production, CWF will be observing the Gray Day on Thursday, September 29th and Dark Days s...
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Posting Date: 08/09/2022
Psychiatric and Psychology Services
Psychiatric and Psychology Services Psychiatric Evaluations The psychiatric diagnostic evaluation is an integrated psychosocial assessment, including history, mental status and recommendations. The ev...
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Posting Date: 08/04/2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 4, 2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 4, 2022 ICD-10-CM Code Files: Fiscal Year 2023 News Hospices: Volunteer to Test Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation Instrument Immunization: Protect You...
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Posting Date: 08/04/2022
Medicare Part B Coverage and Billing Guidance for Breast Ultrasound
Medicare Part B Coverage and Billing Guidance for Breast Ultrasound Breast ultrasound uses sound waves to produce pictures of the inside of the breast and can show changes that are more difficult to s...
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Posting Date: 08/03/2022
Provider Enrollment: Obtaining and Verifying State License
Provider Enrollment: Obtaining and Verifying State License Providers must contact their State agency when initially enrolling or making a change to a current Medicare enrollment for certification mate...
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Posting Date: 08/02/2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, August 1, 2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, August 1, 2022 New CMS Rule Increases Payments for Acute Care Hospitals & Advances Health Equity, Maternal Health On August 1, CMS issued a final rule for inp...
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Posting Date: 08/02/2022
Provider Enrollment Authorization and Accreditation
Provider Enrollment Authorization and Accreditation Provider Enrollment added articles State License and Registrations for Certified Providers and Suppliers and Certified Provider and State Survey Age...
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Posting Date: 08/02/2022
Top Claim Errors
Top Claim Errors Did you know we publish the top claim errors on our website? This information provides you with: the error reason code; a description of the error; the error type; details that includ...
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Posting Date: 08/01/2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, July 29, 2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, July 29, 2022 Skilled Nursing Facilities: Final FY 2023 Payment Rule Skilled Nursing Facilities: Learn What’s New for Fiscal Year 2023 CMS Seeks Public Feedba...
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Posting Date: 08/01/2022
Upcoming Annual Logon ID Recertification
Upcoming Annual Logon ID Recertification Upcoming Annual Logon ID Recertification for Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and JK HH+H Regions. Beginning the week of 9/12/2022, t...
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Posting Date: 08/01/2022
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Telehealth and Potential Fraud
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Telehealth and Potential Fraud The DHHS, of whom the CMS reports to, published a brief last week from the OIG regarding telehealth and the PHE exp...
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Posting Date: 08/01/2022
Understanding your Remittance Advice for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Adjustments
Understanding your Remittance Advice for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Adjustments National Government Services has seen an increase in invalid overpayment requests related to the MIPS program....
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Posting Date: 07/29/2022
Targeted Probe and Educate Letters – An Informational Overview
Targeted Probe and Educate Letters – An Informational Overview As part of our contractual obligation with the CMS, NGS, your Jurisdiction 6 or K MAC performs TPE to analyze provider compliance with CM...
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Posting Date: 07/28/2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, July 27, 2022
MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3 Final FY 2023 Payment Rules: Hospices, Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities, & Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospices: Learn What’s New for Fiscal Y...
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Posting Date: 07/28/2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 28, 2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 28, 2022 Enhanced Nursing Home Rating System News CMS Enhances Nursing Home Rating System with Staffing & Turnover Data Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amen...
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Posting Date: 07/26/2022
July and August 2022 Billing and Coding Article Updates
July/August 2022 Billing and Coding Article Updates Billing and Coding Articles Billing and Coding: Botulinum Toxins (A52848) Based on comments received, ICD-10-CM codes N39.41 and N39.46 have been ad...
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Posting Date: 07/25/2022
New Medical Review Frequently Asked Questions
New Medical Review Frequently Asked Questions We’ve added Medical Review Frequently Asked Questions to our website. Visit our Help and FAQs web page for common questions and answers related to Medical...
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Posting Date: 07/21/2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 21, 2022
MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 21, 2022 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Available Nationwide News 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Available Nationwide COVID-19: Novavax Vaccine, Adjuvanted — ...
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Posting Date: 07/21/2022
Non-Appealable Situations with Medicare Advantage Plans - Make Sure Your Staff is Aware
Non-Appealable Situations with Medicare Advantage Plans - Make Sure Your Staff is Aware When a Medicare Beneficiary enrolls in a MA Plan, that MA plan takes the place of Traditional Medicare benefits....
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Posting Date: 07/20/2022
You Asked – We Listened: Locating our Contact Information
You Asked – We Listened: Locating our Contact Information We often receive comments through our customer experience surveys that providers are not able to find our contact information. NGS contact inf...
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Posting Date: 07/20/2022
Changing or Resetting Your EDI Gateway Password
Changing or Resetting Your EDI Gateway Password The EDI Gateway Self-Service Password Portal is a simple/secure, web-based process for changing or resetting passwords for EDI Trading Partners. There a...
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