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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
Reducing Unprocessable Claims
When claims are submitted with invalid, incomplete or incorrect information, our claims processing system will detect these errors and will reject claims as unprocessable. Our goal is to assist our providers in submitting claims correctly the [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
Getting Access to PECOS
During this webinar, we’ll discuss how to obtain access to the Internet-based Provider Enrollment Chain & Ownership System (PECOS) and gain connection to provider enrollment record as well as understand other Centers for Medicare & Medicaid [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Electronic Notification of Decision Letters
National Government Services will discontinue issuing paper Medicare Part B redetermination requests that are submitted electronically through our portal, NGSConnex. Instead, they will only be accessible to view and print electronically through [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: April 24, 2025
MLN Connects® Newsletter: April 24, 2025 News Open Payments: Review Your Data by May 15 Medicare Shared Savings Program: Application Toolkit Materials MLN Matters® Articles Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Return to Provider Claims [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
Skilled Nursing Facility and Swing Bed Quarterly Top Claim Errors
Do you struggle with your claim denials, rejections and return to provider (RTP) claims? Do you want to be proactive in preventing unnecessary errors? Join us in a review of top claim errors for your provider type based on recent data analysis. [...]
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Posting Date: 04/24/2025
Hospital, CMHC, CORF/ORF and ESRD Facilities Quarterly Top Claim Errors
Do you struggle with your claim denials, rejections and return to provider (RTP) claims? Do you want to be proactive in preventing unnecessary errors? Join us in a review of top claim errors for your provider type based on recent data analysis. [...]
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Posting Date: 04/14/2025
Part B Spring 2025 VC
Spring 2025 Virtual Conference Understanding Medicare Compliance for Part B Providers Tuesday, 6/3/2025 - Thursday, 6/5/2025 /documents/d/ngs/june-virtual-handout_508
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
Part A - Promo 1
NGS Part A Collaborative Summit: Turning Insight Into Action; June 10, 11 and 12, 2025; Click Here and Register Now /documents/d/ngs/2025-pta-spring-vc-onepager-2
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
(CORRECTION) Some Claims Editing for Reason Code U537I, HH Claim Falls Outside of an HH Admission Period for the Same Provider
The CWF can only hold the 36 most recent periods of care for any beneficiary. CWF also contains the indicator of when the HH admission (NOA) was processed. This indicator allows CWF to determine whether an HH admission period is on file with [...]
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
Acute Care Hospitals: Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (CMS-R-131 Form) for Outpatient Services
Acute care hospitals: Do you understand when and how to issue an Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) for outpatient services? Join this session to learn more about the voluntary and mandatory ABN, three payment liability conditions, [...]
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Posting Date: 04/25/2025
Call Center Planned Outage Status
Call Center Planned Outage Offline Friday, 5/9/2025
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Posting Date: 03/11/2025
April Code Set Update for PC Print: April 2025
April Code Set Update for PC Print: April 2025 The PC Print April code set update will be available on our website 4/9/2025. The update contains the following enhancements: CR13891 Implement Operating Rules – Phase III [...]
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Posting Date: 04/08/2025
April Code Set Update for PC Print: April 2025
April Code Set Update for PC Print: April 2025 The PC Print April code set update will be available on our website 4/9/2025. The update contains the following enhancements: CR13891 Implement Operating Rules - Phase III [...]
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Posting Date: 04/08/2025
New Version of PC-ACE: April 2025
New Version of PC-ACE: April 2025 PC-ACE Version 6.6 contains several CMS mandates and product enhancements including but not limited to the items listed below. 13891 – Implement Operating Rules – Phase III Electronic Remittance Advice [...]
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Posting Date: 05/25/2022
Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Member Name Group Email Aldrich, Elizabeth IPW (Independent Physicians of Wisconsin), Allen Family Practice ealdrich@ipw-offices.org Anderson, Benita Aurora Health Care Benita.Anderson@aurora.org [...]
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Posting Date: 05/12/2023
NGSConnex: Initiating and Checking Status of Reconsiderations
Did you know that you can save time and money by requesting a reconsideration via NGSConnex? When you submit reconsideration requests electronically using NGSConnex, you no longer need to complete a form, copy documentation and waste time with [...]
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Posting Date: 06/07/2024
Exemption Process for the Prior Authorization Program for Certain Hospital Outpatient Department Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a prior authorization program for certain hospital outpatient department (OPD) services for date of service (DOS) on or after 7/1/2020 and subsequently added an exemption process. [...]
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Posting Date: 01/08/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 01/02/2025
Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
In an effort to raise awareness and increase utilization of tobacco use counseling, we’ll focus on the effects of nicotine dependence including affected health consequences during this webinar. Medicare coverage, coding, billing and [...]
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Posting Date: 01/08/2025
Ambulance Services and Establishing Medical Necessity for Part B Providers
This webinar will help the ambulance community understand the importance of medical necessity as it pertains to Medicare’s coverage guidelines.
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Posting Date: 01/22/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Preparing and Submitting Claims – Part 1
Join us for Part 1 of a two-part webinar. In Part 1, we will review Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) claim coding and how to prepare/submit an MSP claim. This includes a review of the claim entry pages in the Fiscal Intermediary Standard System [...]
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Posting Date: 01/24/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Preparing and Submitting Claims (Examples) – Part 2
Join us for Part 2 of a two-part webinar. In Part 2, we will briefly recap the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP). Claim coding and billing instructions we reviewed in Part 1. We will then focus on reviewing examples of MSP claims. Be sure you are [...]
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Posting Date: 01/10/2025
Submitting Revalidation via PECOS
During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to utilize the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Internet-based Provider Enrollment Chain & Ownership System (PECOS) to be comfortable in navigating the system to submit a [...]
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Posting Date: 01/28/2025
Using the Medicare Coverage Database: How to Find Important Medicare Coverage Information
Are you responsible for looking up whether a service is covered in the Medicare program at your facility but you're not sure where to look for the most relevant information? Have you received national coverage determination (NCD) or local [...]
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Posting Date: 01/07/2025
Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Three-Day or Less Interruptions
To prevent return to provider (RTP) claims, join us for this webinar in which we will review “three-day or less interruptions” in a beneficiary’s inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) stay, how to count the interruption days, how to report [...]
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Posting Date: 01/16/2025
Preventive Services Overview
Medicare covers many preventive services to keep your patients healthy. Preventive services can help find health problems early, when treatment works best, and can help keep your patients from getting certain diseases. Register today for a [...]
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Posting Date: 01/02/2025
Preventive Services: Flu and PPV Vaccines
During this webinar, we will review the coverage, coding and billing guidelines under Medicare Part B for Influenza and Pneumococcal Pneumonia Virus vaccinations.
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Posting Date: 03/06/2025
Home Health and Hospice New Provider Orientation
This webinar is designed for new home health and hospice agencies in an effort to provide essential information on: Doing business with National Government Services as your Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), self-service tools to help [...]
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Posting Date: 01/17/2025
Home Health Billing Part Two: The Period of Care Claim
Part two of this home health billing series focuses on the period of care claim, how reimbursement is determined under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model and review of the key billing requirements for claim billing. This session is a great [...]
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Posting Date: 01/17/2025
Home Health Billing Part One: The Notice of Admission
Provider Outreach and Education is hosting a two-part home health billing series. Part one will focus on what you need to know before billing, verifying eligibility, and the required fields to properly submit the Notice of Admission (NOA). This [...]
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Posting Date: 01/17/2025
Getting Access to PECOS
During this webinar, we’ll discuss how to obtain access to the Internet-based Provider Enrollment Chain & Ownership System (PECOS) and gain connection to provider enrollment record as well as understand other Centers for Mediacre & Medicaid [...]
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Posting Date: 02/06/2025
Provider Enrollment: Opioid Treatment Program
During this webinar, we’ll provide a brief overview of an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) provider, an understanding of submitting the CMS-855A or CMS-855B paper application and how to complete the provider enrollment Internet-based Provider [...]
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Posting Date: 02/17/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer: Preparing and Submitting Conditional Claims (Examples) – Part 2
Join us for Part 2 of a two-part webinar. In Part 2, we will briefly recap the conditional claim coding and billing instructions we reviewed in Part 1 (on 2/26/2025). We will then focus on reviewing examples of conditional claims. A conditional [...]
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Posting Date: 01/21/2025
The National Correct Coding Initiative and Medically Unlikely Edits for Part B Providers
This webinar will assist Part B providers with navigating tables for the National Correct Coding Initiative and the medically unlikely edits. We'll also review proper modifiers to use to avoid denials. There will be time for your questions [...]
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Posting Date: 01/17/2025
Reducing Unprocessable Claims
When claims are submitted with invalid, incomplete or incorrect information, our claims processing system will detect these errors and will reject claims as unprocessable. Our goal is to assist our providers in submitting claims correctly the [...]
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Posting Date: 01/09/2025
How to Avoid Duplicate Claims
Duplicate denials continue to be one of the top billing errors. Unnecessary duplicate filing of Medicare claims cost the provider's office valuable time and resources, as well as Medicare's time and money to process them. Please join us for [...]
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