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Posting Date: 02/11/2025
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: 02/14/2025
Provider Enrollment: Initially Enrolling a Dentist in the Medicare Program
During this webinar, we’ll address the Medicare dental specialty codes and provide an overview of how to enroll using Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as well as using the CMS-855I paper application. This session is [...]
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Posting Date: 01/13/2025
Prior Authorization for Certain Hospital Outpatient Department Services – General PA
Join us for this general webinar about Prior Authorization for certain Hospital Outpatient Department (OPD) services. This webinar will have a non-clinical focus with emphasis on general requirements as listed in the OPD Operational Guide.
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Posting Date: 02/19/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 02/04/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 01/29/2025
NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications
Beginning in March 2025, National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]
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Posting Date: 01/29/2025
NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications
Beginning in March 2025, National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]
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Posting Date: 02/24/2025
The National Correct Coding Initiatives Procedure-to-Procedure and Medically Unlikely Edits
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) program to promote national correct coding. Incorrect coding often leads to improper payment and increases the paid claims error [...]
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Posting Date: 03/04/2025
Part A Fundamentals of Medicare
Provide an understanding of the fundamentals of the original Medicare Program.
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Posting Date: 02/03/2025
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: 02/26/2025
Provider Enrollment: Initially Enrolling a Dentist in the Medicare Program
During this webinar, we’ll address the Medicare dental specialty codes and provide an overview of how to enroll using Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as well as using the CMS-855I paper application. This session is [...]
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Posting Date: 02/17/2025
Federally Qualified Health Center Basic Billing and Reimbursement
Are you a federally qualified health center provider that would like to learn about basic billing and reimbursement under the federally qualified health center (FQHC) prospective payment system (PPS)? This webinar will include claim and payment [...]
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Posting Date: 02/14/2025
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 & [...]
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Posting Date: 02/13/2025
PECOS: View and Manage Reassignments through Group Enrollment
During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to view and manage reassignments through the group enrollment in Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), including to add or terminate reassignments. Individual [...]
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Posting Date: 02/11/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 02/19/2025
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: 02/28/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 02/13/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 02/13/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 02/19/2025
Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855B Paper Application
During this webinar, we'll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855B provider enrollment paper application for a clinic, group or supplier.
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Posting Date: 02/21/2025
Submitting Part B Medicare Secondary Payer Claims
During this Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) learning session, we'll teach you how to submit your MSP claims with the appropriate loops and segments. We'll review the MSP billing requirements for paper and electronic claims and [...]
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Posting Date: 02/17/2025
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: 02/13/2025
PECOS: Manage Signatures and Additional Information Requests
During this webinar, we’ll give direction for the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) application on understanding how to manage signatures and respond to additional information request from submitted applications.
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Posting Date: 03/07/2025
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: 02/24/2025
Medicare Part B Preventive Services: Bone Mass Measurements, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Screenings
During this webinar, we'll review the coverage, coding and billing guidelines for bone mass measurements, colorectal and prostate cancer screenings.
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Posting Date: 02/25/2025
Ambulance Services and Establishing Medical Necessity for Part B Providers
This webinar will help the ambulance community understand the importance of medical necessity as it pertains to Medicare’s coverage guidelines.
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Posting Date: 03/03/2025
Targeted Probe and Educate
During this webinar, we'll help the Medicare provider community understand the targeted probe and educate program.
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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Understanding the Reopening and Appeal Process Open Forum
National Government Services is committed to reducing provider burden associated with Medicare claim denials, reopenings and appeals. Filing an inquiry on a Medicare claim can be frustrating and costly to your organization. This delay in [...]
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Posting Date: 03/06/2025
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: 03/05/2025
Physical/Occupational Therapy Billing
Join us as we review billing guidelines for physical and occupational therapy. We'll review when to apply the KX modifier and the importance of appropriate medical documentation. National Government Services has a Local Coverage [...]
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Posting Date: 03/06/2025
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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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Home Health Billing Part One: The Notice of Admission
Provider Outreach and Education is hosting a two-part home health (HH) billing series. Part one will focus on what you need to know before billing, verifying eligibility and the required fields to properly submit the Notice of Admission (NOA). [...]
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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Home Health Billing Part Two: The Period of Care Claim
Part two of this home health billing series focuses on the period of care claim, how reimbursement is determined under the Patient Driven Groupings Model and review of the key billing requirements for claim billing. This session is a great [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Home Health Top Claim Errors
Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and, more importantly, how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
Hospice Top Claim Errors
Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and more importantly how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]
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Posting Date: 03/12/2025
Fraud Prevention and Detection
During this webinar, we'll provide you with insight into Medicare fraud and abuse, along with descriptions of laws that help to prevent fraud and abuse from occurring. Education will be provided to increase awareness of integrity issues and [...]
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Posting Date: 02/21/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
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: 03/11/2025
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: 03/06/2025
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: 02/24/2025
Medicare Part B Preventive Services: Bone Mass Measurements, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Screenings
During this webinar, we'll review the coverage, coding and billing guidelines for bone mass measurements, colorectal and prostate cancer screenings.
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Posting Date: 02/25/2025
Ambulance Services and Establishing Medical Necessity for Part B Providers
This webinar will help the ambulance community understand the importance of medical necessity as it pertains to Medicare’s coverage guidelines.
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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Understanding the Reopening and Appeal Process Open Forum
National Government Services is committed to reducing provider burden associated with Medicare claim denials, reopenings and appeals. Filing an inquiry on a Medicare claim can be frustrating and costly to your organization. This delay in [...]
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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Home Health Billing Part Two: The Period of Care Claim
Part two of this home health billing series focuses on the period of care claim, how reimbursement is determined under the Patient Driven Groupings Model and review of the key billing requirements for claim billing. This session is a great [...]
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Posting Date: 03/05/2025
Physical/Occupational Therapy Billing
Join us as we review billing guidelines for physical and occupational therapy. We'll review when to apply the KX modifier and the importance of appropriate medical documentation. National Government Services has a Local Coverage [...]
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Posting Date: 03/06/2025
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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Posting Date: 02/28/2025
Home Health Billing Part One: The Notice of Admission
Provider Outreach and Education is hosting a two-part home health (HH) billing series. Part one will focus on what you need to know before billing, verifying eligibility and the required fields to properly submit the Notice of Admission (NOA). [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Home Health Top Claim Errors
Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and, more importantly, how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
Hospice Top Claim Errors
Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and more importantly how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]
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Posting Date: 03/12/2025
Fraud Prevention and Detection
During this webinar, we'll provide you with insight into Medicare fraud and abuse, along with descriptions of laws that help to prevent fraud and abuse from occurring. Education will be provided to increase awareness of integrity issues and [...]
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Posting Date: 02/21/2025
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 [...]
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