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Posting Date: 03/17/2025
Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry Screen Changes – April 2025
Fiscal Intermediary Standard System Direct Data Entry Screen Changes – April 2025 The April 2025 quarterly system release will update FISS DDE as described below: Inquiries Submenu (01) Option 1C (CMHC Payment Totals)/MAP1D62 - Monetary [...]
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Posting Date: 03/17/2025
Tobacco Cessation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Tobacco Cessation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT is a type of psychotherapy that’s problem oriented. It may help your patients learn how to change unhelpful or unhealthy ways of thinking, feeling and behaving especially when related to [...]
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Posting Date: 03/17/2025
Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application
Provider Enrollment: Top Reasons Behind Delays in Processing the Application Medicare enrollment plays a vital role in ensuring compliance with CMS requirements. To help streamline the process and achieve the best results, it's important to [...]
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Posting Date: 03/17/2025
MCReF Hospice Cap Functionality
MCReF Hospice Cap Functionality Attention Hospice providers: The new MCReF Hospice Cap functionality will be covered in the upcoming MCReF Webinar scheduled for 3/19/2025, from 1:00 – 3:00PM ET. The Hospice Cap provider community is [...]
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
Targeted Probe and Educate: Where to Find the Information Needed for a Successful Review
Do you know where to look on our website for current Part A Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) topics? Are you receiving claim denials for TPE reviews and need more resources? Join us for a session where we will dive into our website to show you [...]
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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: 03/18/2025
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
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
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: 03/18/2025
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: 03/17/2025
Hospital Inpatient or Observation Evaluation and Management Add-On Code G0545 for Infectious Diseases
Hospital Inpatient or Observation Evaluation and Management Add-On Code G0545 for Infectious Diseases Effective 1/1/2025 Definition of G0545 Visit complexity inherent to hospital inpatient or observation care associated with a confirmed or [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program Basics: Part 1 Medicare Coverage
Join us to learn about Medicare coverage of Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) services. This is part 1 of a 2-part session. The second session “Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program: Part 2 Medicare Billing” will be conducted on [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program Basics: Part 2 Medicare Billing
Join us to learn about Medicare billing of Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) services. This is part 2 of a 2-part session. The first session “Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program: Part 1 Medicare Coverage” will be conducted on [...]
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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: 03/19/2025
Preventive Services: Initial Preventive Physical Examination and Annual Wellness Visit
Ensure that your patients obtain the wellness examinations they are eligible for by knowing the differences between the initial preventive physical examination and annual wellness visit. During this webinar, we'll review the coverage, coding [...]
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Posting Date: 02/26/2022
Account Suspensions
Account Suspensions Table of Contents Account Suspensions Unsuspend Your Account Invalid Login Attempts [Return to Top] Account Suspensions If an NGSConnex account has not been used within the last 30 days, the account will be [...]
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Posting Date: 01/25/2024
Caregiver Training Services
Caregiver Training Services Effective 1/1/2024, payment will be made when practitioners train caregivers to support patients with certain diseases or illnesses (e.g., dementia) in carrying out a treatment plan. A caregiver is defined as a [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation
Safeguard Your Finances: Know Your Provider Enrollment Revalidation Attention: Provider Enrollment and Credentialing Teams Ensure you revalidate before your deadline to prevent a "Stay of Enrollment" or claim rejections, which could result in [...]
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer Payment Methodology
Please join us for this learning session on how MSP payments are calculated. It’s essential for providers and their staff members to be able to determine the beneficiary’s responsibility to ensure that claims are being submitted to the Medicare [...]
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Posting Date: 10/26/2023
Navigating Medicare Home Health & Hospice Insights for Providers Podcast
Navigating Medicare Home Health & Hospice Insights for Providers Podcast Listen to our podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! We invite you to join our thoughtful conversations and helpful insights into the Home Health & [...]
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Posting Date: 02/08/2024
Navigating Medicare Part A Insights for Providers Podcast
Navigating Medicare Part A Insights for Providers Podcast Listen to our podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Listen to our podcast, Navigating Medicare Part A Insights for Providers, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! We will be [...]
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
Common Tobacco Withdrawal Symptoms
Common Tobacco Withdrawal Symptoms Trying to quit tobacco use feels different for each person, but almost everyone will have some symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. When stopped, the body and brain must get used to not having nicotine. This can [...]
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Posting Date: 03/21/2025
Podiatry Services - Routine Foot Care and Debridement of Nails
While the Medicare Program generally excludes routine foot care services from coverage, there are specific indications or exceptions under which there are program benefits. Medicare payment may be made for routine foot care when the patient has [...]
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Posting Date: 03/25/2025
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: 03/25/2025
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: 03/25/2025
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: 03/23/2022
Reopening versus Redetermination
Reopening versus Redetermination Table of contents Reopening versus Redetermination Reopening Telephone Reopening Unit Redeterminations [Return to Top] Reopening versus Redetermination Understanding your next steps are very [...]
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Posting Date: 03/24/2025
Opioid Treatment Program
An opioid treatment program (OTP) is a clinic offering medication-assisted treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. During this webinar, we’ll review background and coverage details, including key billing requirements for proper [...]
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Posting Date: 03/24/2025
Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program 2025 Changes
Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program 2025 Changes The MDPP Expanded Model is intended to prevent Medicare beneficiaries with an indication of prediabetes from developing diabetes. Prevention of diabetes among this high-risk group of Medicare [...]
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Posting Date: 03/24/2025
Home Health Claims Returning to Provider RC 19963
HH claims are returning to provider in error with RC 19963. This impacts HH claims with NOA/processed dates in January 2022. NOAs are being purged after 24 months. Please keep in mind there are claims that edit correctly for this reason code. [...]
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Posting Date: 03/24/2025
Introduction to Medicare Part I
Join us for Introduction to Medicare Part I, if you are a new provider/staff member or need a refresher in the Medicare Part B Program. Topics include Jurisdictions, NGS Website, Medicare Enrollment, Electronic Billing, Medicare Compliance, [...]
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Posting Date: 03/24/2025
Introduction to Medicare Part II
Join us for Introduction to Medicare Part II to enhance your understanding of Medicare Part B. Topics include Local Coverage Determinations, Claim Filing Guidelines, Preventive Services, Front Office Assistance, Medigap/Supplemental/Advantage [...]
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Posting Date: 03/02/2021
NGS Office of Congressional Affairs Welcome Letter
Dear Members of Congress and Staff: As your work continues in the 119th Congress, National Government Services, Inc. maintains its dedicated role in serving your district/state as a Medicare contractor for Original Medicare. We are your [...]
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Posting Date: 10/06/2021
Screening Mammography
Preventive Services Guide Screening Mammography A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast. Screening mammograms are routinely administered to detect breast cancer in women who have no apparent symptoms. Coverage Guidelines and Frequency Limits [...]
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Posting Date: 03/25/2025
Rural Health Clinic Coverage and Payment
This session is focused on the basics of rural health clinics (RHCs) – requirements to be an RHC, what types of Medicare services are covered and non-covered in this facility type and an overview of how RHCs are reimbursed. Helpful resources [...]
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