Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855I Paper Application

During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855I provider enrollment paper application for a group member, sole proprietor or sole owner and we’ll also focus on reassigning Medicare benefits.

Prior Authorization CPT/HCPCS Code Inquiry Tool

Prior Authorization CPT/HCPCS Code Inquiry Tool This is a self-service tool to allow ambulance service providers, hospital, or physician office staff responsible for submitting prior authorization requests (PARs), to determine if the [...]

Medicare Overpayment Process

Ensure that you are compliant and avoid financial penalties by understanding the Medicare overpayment regulations. This session will focus on identifying overpayments, using the proper forms and procedures, the timelines for repayment and the [...]

Understanding the Reopening and Appeal Process Open Forum

National Government Services is committed to reducing provider burden associated with Medicare claim denials, reopenings and appeals. Filing an inquiry on a Medicare claim can be frustrating and costly to your organization. This delay in [...]

Private Practice Physical/Occupational Therapy Billing

We invite you to join our informative webinar focused on billing guidelines for physical and occupational therapy in private practice. During this webinar, we'll review important topics such as the appropriate use of the KX modifier and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

55H2B

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Ensure the submitted documentation supports the beneficiary is confined to the home. An individual shall be considered “confined to the home” (homebound) if the following two criteria are met:   [...]

U537I

Avoiding/Correcting This Error All dates of service reported on a period of care claim must be on or after the date of admission. Verify the from and through dates billed and all line-item dates of service to ensure the dates are within the [...]

31287

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Hospice claims are required to be billed monthly. Verify the month beginning and ending date and the ‘From’ and ‘To’ dates on your claim. The claim must span the entire month for continuing care claims.

30993

Verify the MBI submitted on the claim matches the MBI in the Common Working File. If a new MBI has been assigned, follow the guidelines regarding the claim submission: For dates of service before the MBI change date use old or new MBI If [...]

37236

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Verify eligibility of the attending/ordering physicians in PECOS. Print that verification and make it part of the medical record. If applicable, submit a reopen request to the Appeals Department indicating error [...]

55HTP

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Verify that the initial certification is complete and includes all necessary elements, such as the patient’s homebound status, the need for skilled services, and a face-to-face encounter with a physician or [...]

55H1L

Avoiding/Correcting This Error Clinical progress notes should show evidence of a steady decline or downward trajectory in the beneficiary’s clinical status over time. Documentation should be objective, measurable and must support a life [...]

How to Avoid and Correct Duplicate Claim Denials

How to Avoid and Correct Duplicate Claim Denials A duplicate claim submission occurs when a physician or other qualified healthcare professional resubmits a claim either on paper or electronically for a single encounter and the service is [...]

Portable X-Ray Cost Analysis Survey

Understanding the 2026 Cost Analysis Survey for Medicare Allowances on Portable X-Ray Transportation Codes R0070 and R0075

Understanding the 2026 Cost Analysis Survey for Medicare Allowances on Portable X-Ray Transportation Codes R0070 and R0075 Introduction Medicare plays a critical role in ensuring beneficiaries receive medically necessary diagnostic services, [...]

PECOS: Manage Signatures and Additional Information Requests

During this webinar, we’ll give direction for the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) application on understanding how to manage signatures and respond to additional information request from submitted applications.