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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
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. [...]
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
(CORRECTION) Some Claims Editing for Reason Code U537I, HH Claim Falls Outside of an HH Admission Period for the Same Provider
The CWF can only hold the 36 most recent periods of care for any beneficiary. CWF also contains the indicator of when the HH admission (NOA) was processed. This indicator allows CWF to determine whether an HH admission period is on file with [...]
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
Acute Care Hospitals: Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (CMS-R-131 Form) for Outpatient Services
Acute care hospitals: Do you understand when and how to issue an Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) for outpatient services? Join this session to learn more about the voluntary and mandatory ABN, three payment liability conditions, [...]
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Posting Date: 04/08/2025
New Version of PC-ACE: April 2025
New Version of PC-ACE: April 2025 PC-ACE Version 6.6 contains several CMS mandates and product enhancements including but not limited to the items listed below. 13891 – Implement Operating Rules – Phase III Electronic Remittance Advice [...]
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Posting Date: 05/25/2022
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Member Name Group Email Aldrich, Elizabeth IPW (Independent Physicians of Wisconsin), Allen Family Practice ealdrich@ipw-offices.org Anderson, Benita Aurora Health Care Benita.Anderson@aurora.org [...]
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Posting Date: 05/12/2023
NGSConnex: Initiating and Checking Status of Reconsiderations
Did you know that you can save time and money by requesting a reconsideration via NGSConnex? When you submit reconsideration requests electronically using NGSConnex, you no longer need to complete a form, copy documentation and waste time with [...]
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Posting Date: 06/07/2024
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/06/2025
Home Health and Hospice New Provider Orientation
This webinar is designed for new home health and hospice agencies in an effort to provide essential information on: Doing business with National Government Services as your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), self-service tools to help [...]
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Posting Date: 02/06/2025
Provider Enrollment: Opioid Treatment Program
During this webinar, we’ll provide a brief overview of an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) provider, an understanding of submitting the CMS-855A or CMS-855B paper application and how to complete the provider enrollment Internet-based Provider [...]
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Posting Date: 01/17/2025
Reducing Unprocessable Claims
When claims are submitted with invalid, incomplete or incorrect information, our claims processing system will detect these errors and will reject claims as unprocessable. Our goal is to assist our providers in submitting claims correctly the [...]
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Posting Date: 02/06/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 02/20/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 02/13/2025
Acute Care Hospitals: A Peek Inside the Three-Day Payment Window
To prevent return to provider (RTP) claims, join us for this webinar in which we will review the three-day payment window policy (a.k.a. bundling, preadmission services, diagnosis-related group [DRG] window, 72-hour rule) and provide billing [...]
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Posting Date: 01/16/2025
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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Posting Date: 02/07/2025
The Medicare Appeals Process: What You Need to Know
This informative session will help you navigate Medicare’s appeals process by providing information on what an appeal is, how to determine if a claim can be appealed, who may file an appeal, the appeal levels, timeframes and documentation [...]
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Posting Date: 02/14/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Preparing and Submitting Conditional Claims – Part 1
Join us for Part 1 of a two-part webinar. In Part 1, we review conditional claim coding and how to prepare/submit a conditional claim. This includes a review of the claim entry pages in the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry. [...]
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Posting Date: 01/31/2025
Submitting Revalidation via PECOS
During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to utilize the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Internet-based Provider Enrollment Chain & Ownership System (PECOS) to be comfortable in navigating the system to [...]
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Posting Date: 01/31/2025
The National Correct Coding Initiative and Medically Unlikely Edits for Part B Providers
This webinar will assist Part B providers with navigating tables for the National Correct Coding Initiative and the medically unlikely edits. We'll also review proper modifiers to use to avoid denials. There will be time for your questions [...]
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Posting Date: 01/09/2025
How to Avoid Duplicate Claims
Duplicate denials continue to be one of the top billing errors. Unnecessary duplicate filing of Medicare claims cost the provider's office valuable time and resources, as well as Medicare's time and money to process them. Please join us [...]
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