Steps to Claim Corrections

This webinar includes the top continuous errors we find at National Government Services with claim submissions. Join us to learn how to correct your claims. We will also include an interactive segment on the different claim scenarios that cause [...]

Steps to Claim Corrections

This webinar includes the top continuous errors we find at National Government Services with claim submissions. Join us to learn how to correct your claims. We will also include an interactive segment on the different claim scenarios that cause [...]

Proper Part B Claim Submissions

This webinar is intended to educate providers and office staff members on how to complete a clean claim to avoid claim rejections, developments or denials. We will guide you through the CMS-1500 claim form and the electronic equivalent loops [...]

Proper Part B Claim Submissions

This webinar is intended to educate providers and office staff members on how to complete a clean claim to avoid claim rejections, developments or denials. We will guide you through the CMS-1500 claim form and the electronic equivalent loops [...]

55H2B

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Ensure the submitted documentation supports the beneficiary is confined to the home. An individual shall be considered “confined to the home” (homebound) if the following two criteria are met:   [...]

31287

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Hospice claims are required to be billed monthly. Verify the month beginning and ending date and the ‘From’ and ‘To’ dates on your claim. The claim must span the entire month for continuing care claims.

30993

Verify the MBI submitted on the claim matches the MBI in the Common Working File. If a new MBI has been assigned, follow the guidelines regarding the claim submission: For dates of service before the MBI change date use old or new MBI If [...]

37236

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Verify eligibility of the attending/ordering physicians in PECOS. Print that verification and make it part of the medical record. If applicable, submit a reopen request to the Appeals Department indicating error [...]

55HTP

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Verify that the initial certification is complete and includes all necessary elements, such as the patient’s homebound status, the need for skilled services, and a face-to-face encounter with a physician or [...]

55H1L

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Clinical progress notes should show evidence of a steady decline or downward trajectory in the beneficiary’s clinical status over time. Documentation should be objective, measurable and must support a life [...]

How to Avoid and Correct Duplicate Claim Denials

How to Avoid and Correct Duplicate Claim Denials A duplicate claim submission occurs when a physician or other qualified healthcare professional resubmits a claim either on paper or electronically for a single encounter and the service is [...]

Portable X-Ray Cost Analysis Survey

Clinical Trials

Clinical Trials Clinical trials are interventional studies that assess treatments or diagnostics compromising experimental and control groups. Medicare coverage in these trials is guided by strict CMS rules and is limited to FDA-approved [...]

NGSConnex Part B Claim Submissions and Claim Status Inquiry

Submitting Medicare Part B claims can be simple and efficient through the NGSConnex portal. During this webinar, we’ll show you how. We’ll review claim information including how to initiate a Part B claim, how to use the copy claim feature, [...]

NGSConnex: Claims and Medical Review Additional Documentation Requests

In NGSConnex, you have the ability to check the status of claims that have been selected for claim or medical review additional documentation requests (ADRs) in the last forty-five days for the provider selected. The ADR summary will show if [...]

Medical Review: Targeted Probe and Educate Review Topics

Jurisdiction K Part B Targeted Probe and Educate: Medical Review Topics Topic CPT Code(s) Common Denials Resources Paring or Cutting of Benign Hyperkeratotic Lesion 11055, 11056, 11057 A07 – The [...]

Getting Access to PECOS

During this webinar, we’ll discuss how to obtain access to the Internet-based Provider Enrollment Chain & Ownership System (PECOS) and gain connection to provider enrollment record as well as understand other Centers for Medicare & [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter: April 24, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter: April 24, 2025 News Open Payments: Review Your Data by May 15 Medicare Shared Savings Program: Application Toolkit Materials MLN Matters® Articles Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Return to Provider Claims [...]

Skilled Nursing Facility and Swing Bed Quarterly Top Claim Errors

Do you struggle with your claim denials, rejections and return to provider (RTP) claims? Do you want to be proactive in preventing unnecessary errors? Join us in a review of top claim errors for your provider type based on recent data analysis. [...]

Hospital, CMHC, CORF/ORF and ESRD Facilities Quarterly Top Claim Errors

Do you struggle with your claim denials, rejections and return to provider (RTP) claims? Do you want to be proactive in preventing unnecessary errors? Join us in a review of top claim errors for your provider type based on recent data analysis. [...]