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Posting Date: 06/24/2025
National Government Services Important Update
National Government Services Important Update ALERT: Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Phishing Fax Requests National Government Services wants to share with our providers an urgent issue that has been identified by CMS. CMS has been flooded [...]
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Posting Date: 06/24/2025
How to Pay the Application Fee
The application fee must be paid electronically. Important: If submitting a hardship request, it must be submitted with the enrollment application. It cannot be accepted separately. To pay the application fee using the Provider Enrollment, [...]
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Posting Date: 01/05/2021
How to Pay the Application Fee
How to Pay the Application Fee The application fee must be paid electronically. IMPORTANT: If submitting a hardship request, it must be submitted with the enrollment application. It cannot be accepted separately. To pay the application fee [...]
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Posting Date: 01/05/2021
How to Pay the Application Fee
How to Pay the Application Fee The application fee must be paid electronically. Important: If submitting a hardship request, it must be submitted with the enrollment application. It cannot be accepted separately. To pay the application fee [...]
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Posting Date: 01/05/2021
How to Pay the Application Fee
How to Pay the Application Fee The application fee must be paid electronically. Important: If submitting a hardship request, it must be submitted with the enrollment application. It cannot be accepted separately. To pay the application fee [...]
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Posting Date: 06/24/2025
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees
Institutional providers or suppliers must submit an application fee or hardship exception when initially enrolling, revalidating their enrollment or adding a new Medicare practice location. Physicians, nonphysician practitioners, physician [...]
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Posting Date: 04/20/2022
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees Institutional providers or suppliers must submit an application fee or hardship exception when initially enrolling, revalidating their enrollment or adding a new Medicare practice location. Physicians, [...]
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Posting Date: 04/20/2022
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees Institutional providers or suppliers must submit an application fee or hardship exception when initially enrolling, revalidating their enrollment or adding a new Medicare practice location. Physicians, [...]
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Posting Date: 04/20/2022
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees
Who Needs to Pay Application Fees Institutional providers or suppliers must submit an application fee or hardship exception when initially enrolling, revalidating their enrollment or adding a new Medicare practice location. Physicians, [...]
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Posting Date: 06/24/2025
LCD and Billing and Coding Article Updates – 2025
LCD and Billing and Coding Article Updates – 2025 January Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Programs L33626 Effective 1/1/2024, in the Coverage Indications, Limitations and/or Medical Necessity section, the third list under Limitations has [...]
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Posting Date: 08/06/2015
Medical Necessity of Ambulance Services
Medical Necessity of Ambulance Services Table of Contents Medical Necessity of Ambulance Services What You Can Do Nearest Appropriate Facility: GY Modifier What You Can Do Related Content [Return to Top] Medical [...]
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Posting Date: 11/12/2020
Responsibility of Providing a Properly Executed Physician Certification Statement/Certificate of Medically Necessity
Responsibility of Providing a Properly Executed Physician Certification Statement/Certificate of Medically Necessity Recent National Government Services educational efforts have highlighted an issue between facilities and the ambulance [...]
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Posting Date: 03/03/2025
National AB Medicare Administrative Contractor Ambulance Provider/Supplier Coalition
National AB Medicare Administrative Contractor Ambulance Provider/Supplier Coalition Attention Ambulance Providers In response to numerous and continued requests from the ambulance community, the AB MACs have put together a National AB MAC [...]
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
Hospital-Based Ambulance Basic Billing Guidelines
Hospital-Based Ambulance Basic Billing Guidelines For hospital-based ambulance billing under Medicare, services should be billed on the UB-04 form using the ambulance service-specific NPI, not the acute hospital NPI, and claims for inpatient [...]
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Posting Date: 01/31/2015
Ambulance Transports Included in SNF Consolidated Billing
Ambulance Transports Included in SNF Consolidated Billing Transport Description Medical Necessity Met Ambulance Billing Modifiers and Other Considerations Who is Responsible for Payment? Reference(s) SNF to [...]
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Posting Date: 06/26/2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: June 26, 2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: June 26, 2025 News Alert: Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Phishing Fax Requests Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: CY 2025 Payment Rates Compliance Commodes, Bed Pans & Urinals: Prevent Claim Denials [...]
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Posting Date: 03/26/2024
Self-Administered Drug Exclusion (J6 and JK)
Self-Administered Drug Exclusion Update (J6 and JK) Medications that are self-administered more than 50% of the time for all Medicare beneficiaries are excluded from Medicare Part B coverage. At the direction of CMS, each MAC shall [...]
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Posting Date: 08/15/2022
Eligible Method II Providers
Eligible Method II Providers If a CAH wants to become a Method II biller, email the request to A&R at ngsreimbursement@anthem.com. Suppliers who can enroll as a Method II Biller Reassignment. Doctor of Medicine (MD) Doctor of [...]
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Posting Date: 06/25/2025
Electronic Funds Transfer Form and Instructions
Table of Contents Electronic Funds Transfer Form and Instructions CMS-588 EFT Completion Tips for Sole Proprietors, Sole Owners, Clinic/Groups, Organizations, Providers and Suppliers [Return to Top] Electronic Funds Transfer Form and [...]
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Posting Date: 06/25/2025
Verify Bank Account Information
National Government Services receives numerous electronic funds transfer banking rejections each year due to frozen or closed bank accounts. To prevent interruption in Medicare payment, billing providers verify an active bank account is [...]
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