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Posting Date: 02/26/2025

Provider Enrollment: Initially Enrolling a Dentist in the Medicare Program

During this webinar, we’ll address the Medicare dental specialty codes and provide an overview of how to enroll using Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) as well as using the CMS-855I paper application. This session is [...]

Posting Date: 02/17/2025

Federally Qualified Health Center Basic Billing and Reimbursement

Are you a federally qualified health center provider that would like to learn about basic billing and reimbursement under the federally qualified health center (FQHC) prospective payment system (PPS)? This webinar will include claim and payment [...]

Posting Date: 02/14/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

PECOS: View and Manage Reassignments through Group Enrollment

During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to view and manage reassignments through the group enrollment in Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), including to add or terminate reassignments. Individual [...]

Posting Date: 02/11/2025

NGSConnex - Account Management

Do you need assistance with login issues and account suspensions? Do you know who your local security officer is and what they are responsible for? We will also review how to edit the user profile and updating access within the portal. After [...]

Posting Date: 02/19/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/28/2025

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.

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

Provider Enrollment Revalidation Overview

During this webinar, learn about important changes in the revalidation process, how to determine Medicare enrollment revalidation due date and information to avoid disruption in Medicare billing.

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855A Paper Application

During this webinar, we’ll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855A provider enrollment paper application.

Posting Date: 02/19/2025

Provider Enrollment: Completing the CMS-855B Paper Application

During this webinar, we'll provide an understanding of how to complete the CMS-855B provider enrollment paper application for a clinic, group or supplier.

Posting Date: 02/21/2025

Submitting Part B Medicare Secondary Payer Claims

During this Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) learning session, we'll teach you how to submit your MSP claims with the appropriate loops and segments. We'll review the MSP billing requirements for paper and electronic claims and conditional [...]

Posting Date: 02/17/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/13/2025

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.

Posting Date: 03/07/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/24/2025

Medicare Part B Preventive Services: Bone Mass Measurements, Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Screenings

During this webinar, we'll review the coverage, coding and billing guidelines for bone mass measurements, colorectal and prostate cancer screenings.

Posting Date: 02/25/2025

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.

Posting Date: 03/03/2025

Targeted Probe and Educate

During this webinar, we'll help the Medicare provider community understand the targeted probe and educate program.

Posting Date: 02/28/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 03/06/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 03/05/2025

Physical/Occupational Therapy Billing

Join us as we review billing guidelines for physical and occupational therapy. We'll review when to apply the KX modifier and the importance of appropriate medical documentation. National Government Services has a Local Coverage Determination [...]

Posting Date: 03/06/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/28/2025

Home Health Billing Part One: The Notice of Admission

Provider Outreach and Education is hosting a two-part home health (HH) 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). [...]

Posting Date: 02/28/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 03/19/2025

Home Health Top Claim Errors

Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and, more importantly, how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]

Posting Date: 03/26/2025

Hospice Top Claim Errors

Do you see the same rejections and returns to provider (RTPs) over and over? Do you know how to correct the most common errors and more importantly how to avoid them in the future? In this session, we’ll review the most common reason codes [...]

Posting Date: 03/12/2025

Fraud Prevention and Detection

During this webinar, we'll provide you with insight into Medicare fraud and abuse, along with descriptions of laws that help to prevent fraud and abuse from occurring. Education will be provided to increase awareness of integrity issues and [...]

Posting Date: 02/21/2025

Medicare Part B Drugs and Biologicals

Medicare Part B covers certain drugs and biologicals, which require specific billing guidelines. During this webinar, we’ll assist NGS Part B providers in navigating proper billing for these services. There will be time following the [...]

Posting Date: 03/18/2025

Part B Medicare Administrative Contractor Overview and Coverage for Dental Services

Medicare covers a limited number of dental services. The purpose of this webinar is to familiarize dental providers with National Government Services (NGS) and Medicare Part B dental coverage. Discussion will include an overview of the NGS [...]

Posting Date: 03/18/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 03/11/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 03/11/2025

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 [...]

Posting Date: 02/14/2025

NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications

National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex beginning in March 2025. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]

Posting Date: 02/14/2025

NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications

National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex beginning in March 2025. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]

Posting Date: 03/24/2025

Opioid Treatment Program

An opioid treatment program (OTP) is a clinic offering medication-assisted treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. During this webinar, we’ll review background and coverage details, including key billing requirements for proper [...]

Posting Date: 03/04/2025

Billing Telehealth Services for Part B Providers

During this webinar, we’ll provide you with insight into covered Medicare telehealth services and coverage requirements. We’ll discuss originating sites, distant sites and billing and payment guidelines.

Posting Date: 03/12/2025

NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications

National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex beginning in March 2025. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]

Posting Date: 03/12/2025

NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Notifications

National Government Services will discontinue mailing paper Medicare Redetermination Notices (MRNs) when Part B redetermination requests are submitted through NGSConnex beginning in March 2025. During this webinar, we’ll share information and [...]

Posting Date: 02/25/2025

Chiropractic Billing and Documentation

During this webinar, we will discuss chiropractic coverage, coding guidelines and the importance of documentation in order to support billing for these services.

Posting Date: 02/26/2025

What is the Part A Provider Outreach and Education Advisory Group and How Can You Help?

Each of our Provider Outreach and Education Advisory Groups (POE AG) is a primary communication vehicle between the provider community and National Government Services. Our POE AG members serve as a provider education resource to our POE [...]

Posting Date: 03/03/2025

Billing Telehealth in Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Centers

During this webinar, we’ll provide you with insight into covered Medicare telehealth services and coverage requirements for federally qualified health center (FQHC) and rural health clinic (RHC) providers. We’ll discuss originating sites, [...]