MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 7, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines: CDC Long-Term Care Facility Toolkit
News
- COVID-19 Vaccines: CDC Long-Term Care Facility Toolkit
- MLN Web-Based Training: Complete Training & Save Certificates by January 31
- 2020 MIPS Extreme and Uncontrollable Circumstances Exception Application: Deadline February 1
- Extension of Medicare IVIG Demonstration through December 31, 2023
- Teaching Hospitals Receiving FTE Resident Caps Under Section 5506 of the Affordable Care Act
- Cervical Health: Medicare Covers Screening Services
Compliance
- Importance of Proper Documentation: Provider Minute Video
Events
- CMS-CDC Fundamentals of COVID-19 Prevention for Nursing Home Management Call — January 7
MLN Matters® Articles
- Addition of the QW Modifier to Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes 87811 and 87428
- 2021 Annual Update to the Therapy Code List
- Instructions to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) on COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Medicare-Dependent, Small Rural Hospitals and Sole Community Hospitals
- Quarterly Update to Home Health (HH) Grouper
- Quarterly Update to the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) Edits, Version 27.1, Effective April 1, 2021
- Updating Calendar Year (CY) 2021 Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) Payment Rates
- Billing for Home Infusion Therapy Services on or After January 1, 2021 — Revised
- Telehealth Expansion Benefit Enhancement under the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model (PARHM) – Implementation — Revised
Publications
- Complying with Laboratory Services Documentation Requirements — Revised
Multimedia
- Enroll in Medicare to Administer COVID-19 Vaccine Shots: Information for Health Care Providers Video
- Hospital Price Transparency Webcast: Audio Recording & Transcript
- Promoting Interoperability Listening Session: Audio Recording & Transcript
Information for Medicare Patients
- From Coverage to Care Resources Help Navigate Health Coverage
Posted 1/7/2021