MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 1, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 1, 2021 Quality Payment Program: 2021 APM Incentive Payments View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Quality Payment Program: 2021 APM Incentive Payments Compliance Inhalant Drugs: [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, July 1, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, July 1, 2021 CMS Proposes Changes to Reduce Health Care Disparities Among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease Proposed changes mark Innovation Center’s first direct [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 5, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 5, 2021 Coverage to Care & Connected Care View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories: Private Payor Rate-Based CLFS Resources Coverage to Care & [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, December 17, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, December 17, 2021 CMS Funding 1,000 New Residency Slots for Hospitals Serving Rural & Underserved Communities Administration takes action to address access to care, workforce shortages in [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 17, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 17, 2021 COVID-19: EUAs for Monoclonal Antibody Products View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News COVID-19: EUA for Sotrovimab Monoclonal Antibody Product COVID-19: EUA for Regeneron [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 10, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 10, 2021 Cognitive Assessment: What’s in the Written Care Plan? View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Cognitive Assessment: What’s in the Written Care Plan? Hospital Outpatient [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, June 28, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Monday, June 28, 2021 CMS to Improve Home Health Services for Older Adults and People with Disabilities Proposed rule would accelerate shift from volume-based incentives to quality-based incentives CMS [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 27, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 27, 2021 Critical Care E/M Services: Comparative Billing Report View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Critical Care Evaluation & Management Services: Comparative Billing Report in May [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 13, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 13, 2021 Cognitive Impairment: Medicare Provides Opportunities to Detect & Diagnose View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Cognitive Impairment: Medicare Provides Opportunities to Detect & [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, May 11, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, May 11, 2021 CMS Expanding Efforts to Grow COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake Amongst Nation’s Most Vulnerable CMS Builds on Whole-of-Government COVID-19 Response with Vaccination Education, [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 6, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 6, 2021 COVID-19: Ambulance Treatment in Place Waiver View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News New Program: HRSA COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund Ground Ambulance Services: Waiver for Treatment in [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 29, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 29, 2021 NPI: What You Need to Know View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories: Resources about the Private Payor Rate-Based CLFS Compliance Cardiac Device [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, April 27, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, April 27, 2021 CMS Proposes to Enhance the Medical Workforce in Rural and Underserved Communities to Support COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond Proposed rule would require hospitals to report vaccination [...]

MLN Connects® for Friday, April 16, 2021

MLN Connects® for Friday, April 16, 2021 2% Payment Adjustment (Sequestration) Suspended Through December View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Medicare FFS Claims: 2% Payment Adjustment (Sequestration) Suspended Through December [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 8, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 8, 2021 More FY20 PEPPERs Available View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News PEPPERs for LTCHs, CAHs, IRFs, IPFs, Hospices, & SNFs Preparedness Resources: Cybersecurity & Post-Acute [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, March 30, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Temporary Claims Hold Pending Congressional Action to Extend 2% Sequester Reduction Suspension In anticipation of possible Congressional action to extend the 2% sequester reduction [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, January 7, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, January 7, 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Update On December 27, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 modified the Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS): Provided a [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 7, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 7, 2021 COVID-19 Vaccines: CDC Long-Term Care Facility Toolkit View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News COVID-19 Vaccines: CDC Long-Term Care Facility Toolkit MLN Web-Based Training: Complete [...]

Medicare Number

Chapter I: Online System Terminology Medicare Number Purpose The FISS DDE Provider Online System utilizes the terminology MBI to identify the beneficiary’s Medicare number. For the purpose of this manual, “Medicare [...]

Low / No Utilization Cost Report Waiver