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Posting Date: 06/18/2021
National Government Services: Raising Awareness about Care Management
National Government Services: Raising Awareness about Care ManagementAccording to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 117 million adults have one or more chronic health conditions, and one in four adults have two or more chronic [...]
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Posting Date: 04/21/2020
Medicare Telehealth versus Telemedicine
Medicare Telehealth versus TelemedicineWe have received many questions that have indicated confusion between telehealth and telemedicine, and which rules apply to which services within these two benefit categories. While there is a perceived [...]
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Posting Date: 06/14/2021
Billing Tip for COVID-19 Vaccine as a Mass Immunizer Roster Biller - Use the Taxonomy Code
Billing Tip for COVID-19 Vaccine as a Mass Immunizer Roster Biller - Use the Taxonomy CodeNational Government Services highly recommends that Part B providers who are credentialed as a Mass Immunizer (specialty 73) and have multiple PTANs [...]
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Posting Date: 02/23/2017
Annual Security Training/Certifying Access
Annual Security Training/Certifying AccessEvery 365 days NGSConnex LSOs and users are required to review the annual Security Awareness Training, including the rules of behavior and acknowledge access still is required. NGSConnex will display [...]
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Posting Date: 06/09/2021
Use NGSConnex to Submit Quarterly Credit Balance Reports
Use NGSConnex to Submit Quarterly Credit Balance ReportsWe recently posted a news article that explained the process and benefits of using NGSConnex to submit quarterly credit balance reports. Today’s article contains the resolutions for common [...]
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Posting Date: 06/10/2021
Reminder: General Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation is Not Medically Necessary for Facet Joint Interventions
Reminder: General Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation is Not Medically Necessary for Facet Joint InterventionsOn 4/25/2021 National Government Services revised the Local Coverage Determination L35936 “Facet Joint Interventions for Pain [...]
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Posting Date: 06/03/2021
Prior Authorization Exemption: Part B Provider Role
Prior Authorization Exemption: Part B Provider RoleCMS has identified certain Part A HOPDs as having a prior authorization affirmation rate of 90% or greater. As a result, these HOPDs are currently exempt from submitting prior authorization [...]
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Posting Date: 06/03/2021
National Government Services Proposed LCDs for Comment
National Government Services Proposed LCDs for CommentThe proposed LCDs listed below are being presented for comment for the Jurisdiction 6 and Jurisdiction K MACs. The formal comment period extends from 6/3/2021 through 7/17/2021.These draft [...]
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Posting Date: 02/23/2017
Why Use NGSConnex?
Why Use NGSConnex?Each day, thousands of claims and eligibility-based inquiries and other Medicare transactions are successfully completed through NGSConnex. As a registered NGSConnex user you will have instant online access to invaluable [...]
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Posting Date: 06/10/2021
Registration is Now Open for the 2021 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Administrative Contractor Collaborative Summit
Registration is Now Open for the 2021 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Administrative Contractor SummitRegistration is now open for the HH+H MAC Collaborative Summit, Operation Collaboration: We are all in this Together. This summit will [...]
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