MLN Connects® for Thursday, July 18, 2019
News
- Is Your Vendor/Clearinghouse Submitting Your Claims with the MBI?
- DMEPOS Competitive Bidding: Round 2021 Bid Window is Open
- Nursing Homes: Updating Requirements for Arbitration Agreements and New Regulations
- CMS Proposes to Cover Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain for Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Approved Studies
- Quality Payment Program: 2018 MIPS Performance Feedback and Final Score
- Quality Payment Program Participation: Preliminary Data on 2018
- Physician Compare: 2017 Quality Payment Program Performance Information
- PEPPERs for HHAs, PHPs
- 2017 Physician and Other Supplier PUF
- 2017 Referring Provider DMEPOS PUF
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Billing Requirements
- Mass Casualty Triage White Paper and June Express
- Looking for Educational Materials?
Compliance
- Cardiac Device Credits: Medicare Billing
Events
- DMEPOS Competitive Bidding: Round 2021 Webcast Series
- Enrollment: Multi–Factor Authentication for I&A System Webcast — July 30
- IRF Appeals Settlement Initiative Call — August 13
MLN Matters® Articles
- Tropical Storm Barry and Medicare Disaster Related Louisiana Claims
- Reduce Risk of Opioid Overdose Deaths by Avoiding and Reducing Co-Prescribing Benzodiazepines
- Pre-Diabetes Services: Referring Patients to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act
- Changes to the Laboratory National Coverage Determination (NCD) Edit Software for October 2019
- Quarterly Update to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) Edits, Version 25.3 Effective October 1, 2019
- Quarterly Update for the Temporary Gap Period of the Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program (CBP) - October 2019
- Update to Coverage of Intravenous Immune Globulin for Treatment of Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases in the Home
- July 2019 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System
- Activation of Systematic Validation Edits for OPPS Providers with Multiple Service Locations — Revised
Publications
- Provider Compliance Tips for Respiratory Assistive Devices — Revised
- Provider Compliance Tips for Enteral Nutrition — Revised
Multimedia
- Post-Acute Care Call: Audio Recording and Transcript
Posted 7/18/2019