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Posting Date: 10/21/2021
P.O. Box Mailing Addresses
P.O. Box Mailing Addresses Business Function State Mailing Address Appeals AK, AZ, CA, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Island, MI, MN, NJ, NY, WI, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands [...]
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Posting Date: 04/12/2021
P.O. Box Mailing Addresses
P.O. Box Mailing Addresses Business Function State Mailing Address Additional Documentation Requests CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT National Government Services, Inc. P.O. Box 7108 Indianapolis, IN [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Colorectal Cancer Screening: Promoting Good Health Through Disease Prevention and Detection
Medicare covers many preventive services to keep your patients healthy. Preventive services can help find health problems early, when treatment works best, and can help keep your patients from getting certain diseases. Register today for an [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Repetitive Scheduled Non-Emergent Ambulance Transports Prior Authorization
Attention All Independent Ambulance Suppliers! If you are providing repetitive, scheduled, non-emergent ambulance transports (RSNAT), you'll want to attend this webinar. Join us to learn everything you need to know about the RSNAT program.
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
Preventive Vaccines for FQHCs and RHCs Guidance
Preventive Vaccines for FQHCs and RHCs Guidance Effective 7/1/2025, FQHCs and RHCs will bill and receive payment for all four types of Part B preventive vaccines (pneumococcal, influenza, COVID-19 and hepatitis B) and their administration at [...]
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Posting Date: 07/01/2025
New Recovery Audit Contractor
New Recovery Audit Contractor On 4/28/2025, CMS awarded Cotiviti GOV Services LLC the RAC contracts for Region 5 . Region 5 encompasses JA, JB, JC, JD, and the HHH MACs: J6, J15, JK, and JM. Performant previously managed Region 5 and will [...]
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Posting Date: 11/04/2015
Three-Day Qualifying Hospital Stay Required for Medicare-Covered SNF Stay
Three-Day Qualifying Hospital Stay Required for Medicare-Covered SNF Stay Medicare coverage of inpatient SNF services requires a qualifying, medically necessary inpatient hospital stay of at least three consecutive calendar days within 30 [...]
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Posting Date: 07/03/2025
Home Health Billing Coffee Break
Provider Outreach and Education is hosting a 30-minute coffee break to help answer your troublesome billing questions. This is a great opportunity to discuss areas of billing more in depth and review helpful guides and resources. Keep in mind [...]
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Posting Date: 07/03/2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: July 3, 2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: July 3, 2025 Proposed Payment Rules ESRD: CY 2026 Proposed Rule — Submit Comments by August 29 Home Health: CY 2026 Proposed Rule — Submit Comments by August 29 News CMS Launches New Model to Target Wasteful, [...]
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Posting Date: 07/03/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: A Review of the Non-Group Health Plan MSP Provisions
In this webinar, we review the workers’ compensation, No-Fault (including medical-payment coverage) and the Liability Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions. Understanding these provisions will help your facility identify and bill the [...]
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Posting Date: 07/03/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Adjustment Claims
In this webinar, we will review how to prepare and submit adjustments (Type of Bill XX7) to change processed or rejected claims for Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP)-related reasons. We discuss adjusting Medicare primary, MSP, and cost-avoided [...]
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Posting Date: 07/03/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Payment and Beneficiary Responsibility
In this webinar, we review how Medicare determines if an Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) payment is due on a claim, how the MSP payment module determines the amount of an MSP payment, how coding reported on MSP claims can impact payment, and how [...]
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Posting Date: 07/08/2025
Overpayment: How Should I Respond?
Table of Contents Overpayment: How Should I Respond? What Action Should I Take? Complete a Voluntary Refund Where Should I Send my Forms and Payments? [Return to Top] Overpayment: How Should I Respond? An overpayment may be [...]
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Posting Date: 07/08/2025
Request an Immediate Recoupment
National Government Services has implemented a standardized “immediate recoupment” process that gives you the option to avoid interest from accruing on claims overpayments when the debt is recouped in full prior to or by the 30th day from the [...]
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Posting Date: 07/08/2025
Complete a Voluntary Refund
A voluntary refund is when you have self-identified you have been overpaid and you need to refund the excess funds to Medicare. All checks are made payable to National Government Services. Whenever possible, the refund to Medicare should be [...]
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Posting Date: 09/16/2020
Pricing <5>
table, td, th table { border-collapse: collapse; width: 50%; } Pricing <5> When Pricing is selected, the IVR will play the following: "To obtain pricing information, visit NGSMedicare.com and use our fee schedule lookup tool, [...]
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Posting Date: 07/08/2025
Set Up an Extended Repayment Schedule
If repaying an overpayment would constitute a “hardship” on the provider, a request for an ERS should be submitted immediately. While you may request an ERS at any time during the debt-collection process, timely submission of a valid request [...]
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