MLN Connects® for Thursday, August 29, 2019
New Medicare Card: Open Door Forum — September 11
News
- Promoting Interoperability: 2019 PDMP Bonus Measure
- Beneficiary Notices Initiative Mailbox Portal
- Promoting Interoperability: 2020 Eligible Hospital eCQM Flows
- DMEPOS: Nationwide Expansion of Required PA of Pressure Reducing Support Surfaces
Compliance
- IRF Services: Follow Medicare Billing Requirements
Events
- MIPS Value Pathways RFI Webinar — September 4
- Venipuncture: Comparative Billing Report Webinar — September 5
- Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences Call — September 10
- New Medicare Card: Open Door Forum— September 11
- Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation Tool ODF – September 12
- Opioids: What’s an “Outlier Prescriber”? Listening Session — September 17
- Overall Hospital Star Ratings Listening Session - September 19
MLN Matters® Articles
- New Documentation Requirements for Filing Medicare Cost Reports
- Update to Hospice Payment Rates, Hospice Cap, Hospice Wage Index and Hospice Pricer for FY 2020
- Claim Status Category and Claim Status Codes Update
- Implement Operating Rules - Phase III Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) 360 Uniform Use of Claim Adjustment Reason Codes (CARC), Remittance Advice Remark Codes (RARC) and Claim Adjustment Group Code (CAGC) Rule - Update from Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) CORE
- Home Health (HH) Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) - Revised and Additional Manual Instructions
- 2020 Annual Update for the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Bonus Payments
- Healthcare Provider Taxonomy Codes (HPTCs) October 2019 Code set Update
- Implementation to Exchange the List of Electronic Medical Documentation Requests (eMDR) for Registered Providers via the Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD) System — Revised
Publications
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Booklet — Revised
Multimedia
- Physician Fee Schedule Listening Session: Audio Recording and Transcript
- IRF Appeals Settlement Call: Audio Recording and Transcript
- OPPS and ASC Listening Session: Audio Recording and Transcript
- ESRD QIP Call: Audio Recording and Transcript
- SNF PPS: Patient Driven Payment Model Videos
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs): Improving Documentation Positively Impacts CERT Web-Based Training Course — Revised
Posted 8/29/2019