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Posting Date: 03/20/2025

Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation

Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation Attention: Provider Enrollment and Credentialing Teams Ensure you revalidate before your deadline to prevent a "Stay of Enrollment"...

Posting Date: 03/20/2025

Common Tobacco Withdrawal Symptoms

Common Tobacco Withdrawal Symptoms Trying to quit tobacco use feels different for each person, but almost everyone will have some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. When stopped, the body and brain must...

Posting Date: 03/19/2025

Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation

Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation Attention: Provider Enrollment and Credentialing Teams Ensure you revalidate before your deadline to prevent a "Stay of Enrollment" ...

Posting Date: 03/17/2025

Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application

Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application Medicare enrollment plays a vital role in ensuring compliance with CMS requirements. To help streamline the process and ach...

Posting Date: 03/17/2025

Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry Screen Changes – April 2025

Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry Screen Changes – April 2025 The April 2025 quarterly system release will update FISS DDE as described below: Inquiries Submenu (01) Option 1C (CMH...

Posting Date: 03/17/2025

Tobacco Cessation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Tobacco Cessation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT is a type of psychotherapy that’s problem oriented. It may help your patients learn how to change unhelpful or unhealthy ways of thinking, feelin...

Posting Date: 03/17/2025

Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application

Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application Medicare enrollment plays a vital role in ensuring compliance with CMS requirements. To help streamline the process and ach...

Posting Date: 03/17/2025

MCReF Hospice Cap Functionality

MCReF Hospice Cap Functionality Attention Hospice providers: The new MCReF Hospice Cap functionality will be covered in the upcoming MCReF Webinar scheduled for 3/19/2025, from 1:00 – 3:00PM ET. The ...

Posting Date: 03/14/2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: March 13, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: March 13, 2025 News Medicare Shared Savings Program: Application Deadlines for January 1, 2026, Start Date Claims, Pricers & Codes ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance Committee...

Posting Date: 03/10/2025

April 2025 EDI Front End Quarterly Release

April 2025 EDI Front End Quarterly Release Please be advised that while the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services mandated release for April 2025 will be installed the weekend of 4/6/2025, the code...

Posting Date: 03/10/2025

Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative Coming Soon

Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative Coming Soon National Government Services will discontinue issuing paper MRNs for Medicare Part B redetermination requests that are submitted electroni...

Posting Date: 03/07/2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: March 6, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: March 6, 2025 News Therapy Services: Get Updates for CY 2025 Hospitals: Apply for Additional Residency Positions by March 31 Compliance Oral Anticancer & Antiemetic Drugs: Pr...

Posting Date: 03/07/2025

Save the Date! National A/B MAC Ambulance Provider/Supplier Coalition

Save the Date! National A/B MAC Ambulance Provider/Supplier Coalition Attention Ambulance Providers As the MACs celebrate and honor the dedication and contributions to healthcare made by those who pro...

Posting Date: 03/04/2025

New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative – Implementation Delayed

New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative - Implementation Delayed As we’ve communicated recently, National Government Services will be starting a new initiative for providers who submit M...

Posting Date: 03/03/2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 28, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 28, 2025 CMS Provider Education Message: Hospitals: Actions to Make Healthcare Prices Transparent Update: On February 25, the White House issued an Executive Order t...

Posting Date: 02/27/2025

National Correct Coding Initiative

National Correct Coding Initiative We recently introduced the NCCI Lookup Tool on our Part B Tools and Calculators page. This tool is designed to assist providers in identifying codes subject to autom...

Posting Date: 02/25/2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 24, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 24, 2025 Compliance Mechanical Ventilation: Bill Correctly for Inpatient Claims Claims, Pricers, & Codes Discarded Drugs & Biologicals: Orphan Drugs with Increased A...

Posting Date: 02/24/2025

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative Beginning 3/3/2025, NGS will only issue electronic versions of the MRN when a Medicare Part B Redetermination request is electronically ...

Posting Date: 02/24/2025

Important Update for Part B Providers – New NCCI Lookup Tool

Important Update for Part B Providers – New NCCI Lookup Tool The Medicare NCCI promotes accurate coding and prevents improper payments. We have added the NCCI Lookup Tool to our Part B Tools and Calcu...

Posting Date: 02/21/2025

Local Coverage Determination Open Meeting

Local Coverage Determination Open Meeting National Government Services is hosting a Local Coverage Determination Open Meeting on 3/13/2025. Details are available by accessing the Local Coverage Determ...

Posting Date: 02/21/2025

Common Working File Host Dark Days for April 2025 Release

Common Working File Host Dark Days for April 2025 Release For Production, CWF will be observing the Gray Day on Thursday, April 3rd, and Dark Days starting Friday, April 4th through Sunday, April 6th ...

Posting Date: 02/17/2025

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative As we’ve communicated, National Government Services is transitioning to electronic notifications for Part B Medicare Redetermination dec...

Posting Date: 02/17/2025

Collaborative Urological Supplies Webinar Coming 3/27/2025

Collaborative Urological Supplies Webinar Coming 3/27/2025 This is your opportunity to hear directly from the Medicare contractors regarding Medicare’s criteria necessary for the coverage of urologica...

Posting Date: 02/14/2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 14, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: February 14, 2025 News Complex Non-Chemotherapeutic Drug Administration: Determining Payment for Services Claims, Pricers, & Codes Ambulance Fee Schedule: CY 2025 Inflation F...

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

Tobacco Cessation Counseling Doesn’t Have To Be Lengthy or Intimidating

Tobacco Cessation Counseling Doesn’t Have To Be Lengthy or Intimidating Did you know that tobacco cessation counseling is a covered Medicare service? Brief tobacco counseling provides substantial heal...

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

[RESOLVED] Medicare Claim Process System Experiencing Outages

[RESOLVED] Medicare Claim Process System Experiencing Outages We were experiencing outages with our IVR and NGSConnex claim status functionality. Technical support was engaged and the issue is now res...

Posting Date: 02/10/2025

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative

Reminder: New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative As a reminder, beginning 3/3/2025, National Government Services will only issue electronic versions of the MRN when a Medicare Part B Re...

Posting Date: 02/10/2025

Medicare Advantage Information For Part A and Part B Not Offered on the IVR Beginning 3/14/2025

Medicare Advantage Information For Part A and Part B Not Offered on the IVR Beginning 3/14/2025 Effective the evening of 3/14/2025, the Medicare IVR system will no longer provide information regarding...

Posting Date: 02/10/2025

Global Period Services - HCPCS Code G0559

Global Period Services - HCPCS Code G0559 As of 1/1/2025, CMS has implemented HCPCS Code G0559 to capture work performed by a provider other than the performing surgeon during the global period associ...

Posting Date: 02/06/2025

NGSMedicare.com Scheduled Maintenance on Sunday, 2/9/2025

NGSMedicare.com Scheduled Maintenance on Sunday, 2/9/2025 We will experience intermittent outages with NGSMedicare.com on Sunday, 2/9/2025 due to maintenance. NGSMedicare.com will be fully operational...

Posting Date: 02/03/2025

Medicare Part B Independent Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Providers

Medicare Part B Independent Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Providers National Government Services is addressing providers who frequently submit clerical error reopenings to add the KX modif...

Posting Date: 02/03/2025

New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative

New Medicare Part B Redetermination Notice Initiative As we’ve communicated, beginning 3/3/2025, National Government Services will only issue electronic versions of the MRN when a Medicare Part B Rede...

Posting Date: 02/03/2025

2025 Gapfill Request

2025 Gapfill Request National Government Services, the MAC for JK and J6 is in receipt of the new laboratory test codes identified by the CMS to be gap-fill priced for 2025. The PAMA regulations instr...

Posting Date: 02/03/2025

2025 Gapfill Request Reminder

2025 Gapfill Request Reminder National Government Services, the MAC for JK and J6, is in receipt of the new laboratory test codes identified by CMS to be gap-fill priced for 2025. Please access the co...

Posting Date: 02/03/2025

Institutional Providers: Revised CMS-855A Version (09/24) Medicare Enrollment Application

Institutional Providers: Revised CMS-855A Version (09/24) Medicare Enrollment Application Available now is the revised CMS-855A (09/24) paper application that includes a section for SNF to comply wit...

Posting Date: 01/30/2025

Take Advantage of Tobacco Counseling When Performing Medicare Wellness Visits

Take Advantage of Tobacco Counseling When Performing Medicare Wellness Visits Medicare providers have a valuable opportunity to optimize revenue and improve patient outcomes through Medicare's Annual ...

Posting Date: 01/28/2025

Part A Fundamentals of Medicare Online Guide

Part A Fundamentals of Medicare Online Guide Attention Part A Providers and Support Staff: National Government Services produces the Fundamentals of Medicare online guide to help build understanding ...

Posting Date: 01/28/2025

Medicare Participating Physicians Directory

Medicare Participating Physicians Directory The 2025 MEDPARD is now available. It includes all Part B providers in Jurisdiction 6 and Jurisdiction K who have agreed to accept assignment on all Medicar...

Posting Date: 01/27/2025

Jurisdiction 6 Part B Top Claim Errors Are Updated

Jurisdiction 6 Part B Top Claim Errors Are Updated Did you know we publish the top claim errors on our website? This resources provides detailed information including: the error reason code; a descrip...

Posting Date: 01/27/2025

Jurisdiction K Part B Top Claim Errors Are Updated

Jurisdiction K Part B Top Claim Errors Are Updated Did you know we publish the top claim errors on our website? This resources provides detailed information including: the error reason code; a descrip...