MLN Connects® for Thursday, October 17, 2019
New Medicare Card: MBI Transition Ends in Less Than 10 Weeks
News
- New Medicare Card: MBI Transition Ends in Less Than 10 Weeks
- Guide for Appropriate Tapering or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Use
- ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance: Deadline for Comments November 8
- CMS Health Equity Award: Submit Nomination by November 15
- Quality Payment Program: Participation Status Tool Includes Second Snapshot of Data
- Atherectomy: Comparative Billing Report in October
- Protect Your Patients from Influenza this Season
Compliance
- Cardiac Device Credits: Medicare Billing
Events
- Submitting Your Medicare Part A Cost Report Electronically Webcast — November 5
- Atherectomy: Comparative Billing Report Webinar — November 6
- Provider Compliance Focus Group Meeting — November 12
MLN Matters® Articles
- Add Dates of Service (DOS) for Pneumococcal Pneumonia Vaccination (PPV) Health Care Procedure Code System (HCPCS) Codes (90670, 90732), and Remove Next Eligible Dates for PPV HCPCS
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS Changes
- Home Health Orders for Nurse Practitioners under the Maryland Total Cost of Care (TCOC) Model
- Implementation of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) — Revised
- October 2019 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System — Revised
- October 2019 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) — Revised
Publications
- Quality Payment Program: MIPS and APM Resources
- Roster Billing for Mass Immunizers — Revised
- Acute Care Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System — Reminder
- Hospice Payment System— Reminder
- Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System— Reminder
- Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System— Reminder
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System— Reminder
- Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System— Reminder
- Telehealth Services — Reminder
Posted 10/17/2019