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Telehealth Services

Telehealth Services Table of Contents General Information Originating Site Distant Site List of Covered Medicare Telehealth Services Billing Facility Fee for Originating Site Payment for Professional Fee Place of [...]

Telehealth Extension 2025

Telehealth Extension 2025 A Congressional continuing resolution bill has extended telehealth coverage for services in all U.S. geographic locations through 9/30/2025. Based on this guidance, National Government Services will continue to pay [...]

Hospital Acquired Conditions and Present on Admission Resource for Acute Care Hospital Facilities

Hospital Acquired Conditions and Present on Admission Resource for Acute Care Hospital Facilities The hospital is the entity required to bill POA indicators on all inpatient claims billed to Medicare. However, accurate coding of all diagnosis [...]

NCCI Lookup Tool Top

National Correct Coding Initiative Lookup Tool The NCCI PTP lookup tool is designed to help providers identify when certain codes are subject to the automated code pair edits. When two codes of an edit pair are identified, the major code [...]

Exemption Process for the Prior Authorization Program for Certain Hospital Outpatient Department Services

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a prior authorization program for certain hospital outpatient department (OPD) services for date of service (DOS) on or after 7/1/2020 and subsequently added an exemption [...]

Let’s Chat: Prior Authorization for Certain Hospital Outpatient Department Services

This Let’s Chat session focuses on Prior Authorization for certain hospital outpatient department (OPD) services and is an informal opportunity for you to chat with our staff about the selected topic. During the session, you may ask us [...]

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Avoiding/Correcting This Error Verify HCPCS code using the FISS DDE Inquiries HCPCS file (option 14) to determine the allowable revenue codes based upon the date of service. Verify billing and, if appropriate, correct the claim using the [...]

Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor Overview and Coverage for Dental Services

Medicare covers a limited number of dental services. The purpose of this webinar is to familiarize dental providers with National Government Services (NGS) and Medicare Part B dental coverage. Discussion will include an overview of the NGS [...]

Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database

Medicare offers several tools to help providers bill their services. Many questions you have can be answered by learning how to access and use the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database. We hope you'll join us for an overview of this database.

Medicare Part B Drugs and Biologicals

Medicare Part B covers certain drugs and biologicals, which require specific billing guidelines. During this webinar, we’ll assist NGS Part B providers in navigating proper billing for these services. There will be time following the [...]

Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855I Paper Application

During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855I provider enrollment paper application for a group member, sole proprietor or sole owner and we’ll also focus on reassigning Medicare benefits.

Provider Enrollment Revalidation Overview

During this webinar, learn about important changes in the revalidation process, how to determine Medicare enrollment revalidation due date and information to avoid disruption in Medicare billing.

Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855A Paper Application

During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855A provider enrollment paper application.

Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Preparing and Submitting Compliant Claims to Medicare

In this session, we will review Medicare's general inpatient billing requirements for Inpatient Psychiatric Facility's including bill types, billing frequency, interim billing, benefits exhaust billing, billing for electroconvulsive [...]

NGSConnex-Account Management

Do you need assistance with login issues and account suspensions? Do you know who your Local Security Officer is and what they are responsible for? We will also review how to edit the user profile and updating access within the portal. After [...]

Introduction to Medicare Part I

Join us for Introduction to Medicare Part I, if you are a new provider/staff member or need a refresher in the Medicare Part B Program. Topics include Jurisdictions, NGS Website, Medicare Enrollment, Electronic Billing, Medicare Compliance, [...]