Ambulance Resources

Note: Codes that have a $0 (zero) fee schedule amount will not display a search result.Locality/Area and County Information for IllinoisLocality/AreaCounties12Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Randolph, St. [...]

Ambulatory Form Description

Ambulatory Resources

Note: Codes that have a $0 (zero) fee schedule amount will not display a search result.Locality/Area and County Information for IllinoisLocality/AreaCounties12Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Randolph, St. [...]

Levels of Appeals and Time Limits for Filing

Home Infusion Therapy

Modifiers

National Government Services Part A Medical Review Newsletter June 2021

National Government Services Part A Medical Review Newsletter June 2021The National Government Services MR Department would like to welcome you to our newest service; a regular newsletter. It is our hope that you will find this newsletter [...]

Article Updates for July 2021

Article Updates for July 2021Billing and Coding: Complex Drug Administration Coding (A58620)Under Article Text - Route of Administration Modifier revised the first sentence to read, “The use of the JA and JB modifiers is required for drugs [...]

Financial Contact Information Form

Immediate Recoupment Request Form – Electronic/E-mail

Credit Balance Report Reminders

Credit Balance Report RemindersFor the quarter ending 6/30/2021, CBRs can be submitted starting 7/1/2021 and must be submitted within 30 days to be considered timely.FISS/DDE users who submit the 838 detail page directly over the FISS/DDE [...]

Provider Enrollment: Understand the Process to Opt Out of Medicare

Provider Enrollment: Understand the Process to Opt Out of MedicareProviders that render services to a Medicare beneficiary must enroll with Medicare and submit a claim on behalf of the beneficiary. However, select providers can stay in [...]

July 2021 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File Hosts

July 2021 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File HostsFor the upcoming July 2021 Release:For Production, CWF will be observing the Gray Day on Thursday, July 1st and Dark Days starting Friday, July 2nd through Sunday, July 4th to [...]

National Government Services Part B Medical Review Newsletter June 2021

National Government Services Part B Medical Review Newsletter June 2021We hope you are enjoying our newest service; a regular newsletter. Our goal is to help you stay up-to-date on the on the MR activities performed here at National Government [...]

National Government Services: Raising Awareness about Care Management

National Government Services: Raising Awareness about Care ManagementAccording to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), an estimated 117 million adults have one or more chronic health conditions, and one in four adults have two or more chronic [...]

Medicare Telehealth versus Telemedicine

Medicare Telehealth versus TelemedicineWe have received many questions that have indicated confusion between telehealth and telemedicine, and which rules apply to which services within these two benefit categories. While there is a perceived [...]

Billing Tip for COVID-19 Vaccine as a Mass Immunizer Roster Biller - Use the Taxonomy Code

Billing Tip for COVID-19 Vaccine as a Mass Immunizer Roster Biller - Use the Taxonomy CodeNational Government Services highly recommends that Part B providers who are credentialed as a Mass Immunizer (specialty 73) and have multiple PTANs [...]

Annual Security Training/Certifying Access

Annual Security Training/Certifying AccessEvery 365 days NGSConnex LSOs and users are required to review the annual Security Awareness Training, including the rules of behavior and acknowledge access still is required. NGSConnex will display [...]

Use NGSConnex to Submit Quarterly Credit Balance Reports

Use NGSConnex to Submit Quarterly Credit Balance ReportsWe recently posted a news article that explained the process and benefits of using NGSConnex to submit quarterly credit balance reports. Today’s article contains the resolutions for common [...]

Reminder: General Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation is Not Medically Necessary for Facet Joint Interventions

Reminder: General Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation is Not Medically Necessary for Facet Joint InterventionsOn 4/25/2021 National Government Services revised the Local Coverage Determination L35936 “Facet Joint Interventions for Pain [...]