Pain Management

Introducing our new Medicare Topic: Tobacco Cessation

Introducing our new Medicare Topic: Tobacco Cessation Visit our new designated Tobacco Cessation Medicare Topic for everything health care providers need to know about Medicare coverage for tobacco cessation counseling including coverage [...]

Tobacco Cessation

Frequently Asked Questions

MLN Connects® Newsletter: October 13, 2022

MLN Connects® Newsletter: October 13, 2022 News Protect Your Patients in October: Give Them a Flu Shot and COVID-19 Vaccine Vacating Differential Payment Rate for 340B-Acquired Drugs in 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final [...]

Drugs and Biologicals Frequently Asked Questions

Drugs and Biologicals Frequently Asked Questions We’ve added new frequently asked questions to our website. View answers to common questions about Drugs and Biologicals to ensure you have the information needed to properly submit claims for [...]

The Home Health and Hospice Targeted Probe and Educate Process

The Home Health and Hospice Targeted Probe and Educate Process Medical Review conducts TPE on claims from all providers under the Medicare Program. Protect your revenue by gaining more knowledge regarding TPE audits. Providers targeted for [...]

Provider Outreach and Education Events

Provider Outreach and Education Events Our Provider Outreach and Education team offers a wealth of educational sessions for a variety of Medicare topics throughout the year. Because there are so many choices, we’ve improved the Search [...]

A/B and DME Collaborative Glucose Monitors and Supplies

A/B and DME Collaborative Glucose Monitors and Supplies View the A/B and DME Collaborative Glucose Monitors and Supplies YouTube Video for coverage criteria, documentation requirements and resources for glucose monitors and supplies. Posted [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter: October 20, 2022

MLN Connects® Newsletter: October 20, 2022 News Skilled Nursing Facility Provider Preview Reports: Review by November 14 Help Your Patients Make Informed Health Care Decisions Ambulance Fee Schedule: CY 2023 Ambulance Inflation Factor [...]

HHS-690 Assurance of Compliance

CMS-1539 Medicare/Medicaid Certification and Transmittal

CMS-1561 Health Insurance Benefit Agreement

Pneumococcal Vaccine

Pneumococcal Vaccine Frequently Asked Questions

Pneumococcal Vaccine Frequently Asked Questions We’ve added new frequently asked questions to our website. View answers to common questions about Pneumococcal Vaccine to ensure you have the information needed to properly submit claims for [...]

CERT Text Part B

Need to Appeal a CERT Denial? Log onto our secure NGSConnex online Web application and quickly file an appeal. Submitting an appeal electronically saves postage, print and mail costs and is easy to do through NGSConnex.com. If you do not [...]

Attention All Medicare Providers: Are You Using an Outsource Company?

Attention All Medicare Providers: Are You Using an Outsource Company? Do you use an outsource company for your Medicare billing and account receivables? Do you know who is using your data? Do you know how they are using your data? How much is [...]

Prior Authorization Exemption: 56900 Denials Alert

Prior Authorization Exemption: 56900 Denials Alert NGS PA department has denied claims due to non-responses related to the postpayment ADR review for the Exemption process. Providers may submit the necessary documentation to the NGS PA [...]

October and November 2022 Billing and Coding and Medical Policy Article Updates

October and November 2022 Billing and Coding and Medical Policy Article Updates Retired article: Billing and Coding: Complex Drug Administration Coding (A58620) Revised articles: Billing and Coding: Molecular Pathology Procedures [...]

Notice of Local Coverage Determination Retirement

Notice of Local Coverage Determination Retirement Based on comments received at our Open Meeting on 10/20/2022, National Government Services has decided to retire the Proposed LCD DL38262 Salvage High-intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) [...]