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Posting Date: 02/18/2025
Outpatient Psychotherapy Services: A Focus on Coverage and Documentation Requirements
Outpatient psychotherapy services are being reviewed as part of our Part A Medical Review Targeted Probe and Educate program. This session will provide a high-level overview of outpatient psychotherapy services with a focus on coverage and [...]
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Posting Date: 03/11/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 02/27/2025
Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Basics
This session will focus on the basics of skilled nursing facility (SNF) inpatient billing, including the required fields on SNF claims, timeframes for claim submission and how proper billing impacts payment.
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
Targeted Probe and Educate: Where to Find the Information Needed for a Successful Review
Do you know where to look on our website for current Part A Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) topics? Are you receiving claim denials for TPE reviews and need more resources? Join us for a session where we will dive into our website to show you [...]
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Posting Date: 03/05/2025
The Initial Preventive Physical Examination: Promoting Good Health Through Disease Prevention and Detection
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 an [...]
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Posting Date: 03/25/2025
Rural Health Clinic Coverage and Payment
This session is focused on the basics of rural health clinics (RHCs) – requirements to be an RHC, what types of Medicare services are covered and non-covered in this facility type and an overview of how RHCs are reimbursed. Helpful resources [...]
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
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: 03/20/2025
Medicare Secondary Payer Payment Methodology
Please join us for this learning session on how MSP payments are calculated. It’s essential for providers and their staff members to be able to determine the beneficiary’s responsibility to ensure that claims are being submitted to the Medicare [...]
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Posting Date: 03/31/2025
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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Posting Date: 03/21/2025
Podiatry Services - Routine Foot Care and Debridement of Nails
While the Medicare Program generally excludes routine foot care services from coverage, there are specific indications or exceptions under which there are program benefits. Medicare payment may be made for routine foot care when the patient has [...]
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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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database
Medicare offers several tools to help providers bill their services. Many questions you have can be answered by learning how to access and use the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database. We hope you'll join us for an overview of this database.
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Posting Date: 03/31/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/14/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/14/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/31/2025
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: 03/14/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/14/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/12/2025
Understanding the Federally Qualified Health Center Medicare Advantage Supplemental Payments
During this webinar, we’ll equip participants with a clear understanding of the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Medicare Advantage Supplemental Payment Program and guide participants through the necessary steps to set up and bill for [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program Basics: Part 1 Medicare Coverage
Join us to learn about Medicare coverage of Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) services. This is part 1 of a 2-part session. The second session “Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program: Part 2 Medicare Billing” will be conducted on [...]
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Posting Date: 03/19/2025
Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program Basics: Part 2 Medicare Billing
Join us to learn about Medicare billing of Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) services. This is part 2 of a 2-part session. The first session “Understanding the Partial Hospitalization Program: Part 1 Medicare Coverage” will be conducted on [...]
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Posting Date: 02/27/2025
NGSConnex: Claims and Medical Review Additional Documentation Requests
In NGSConnex, you have the ability to check the status of claims that have been selected for claim or medical review additional documentation requests (ADRs) in the last forty-five days for the provider selected. The ADR summary will show if [...]
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Posting Date: 03/28/2025
Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities: Preparing and Submitting Compliant Claims to Medicare
In this session, we will review Medicare's general inpatient billing requirements for Inpatient Psychiatric Facility's including bill types, billing frequency, interim billing, benefits exhaust billing, billing for electroconvulsive therapy [...]
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Posting Date: 03/18/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 04/04/2025
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/13/2025
Mastering Critical Access Hospital Outpatient Billing
During this webinar, we’ll provide basic billing instructions for outpatient services in a Critical Access Hospital (CAC) including Method I and Method II payment methods.
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Posting Date: 04/02/2025
Skilled Nursing Facility Consolidated Billing
Did you know that skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are responsible for paying outside entities for most services provided to beneficiaries while they are in a covered Part A stay and for certain services for Part B beneficiaries? Streamline [...]
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Posting Date: 03/31/2025
Using Third Party Billing Companies
Medicare providers frequently outsource their billing, financial and enrollment services. During this webinar, we’ll highlight the need to contract with CMS-approved entities and ensure these contracts include measures to protect personally [...]
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Posting Date: 03/20/2025
Repetitive Scheduled Non-Emergent Ambulance Transports Prior Authorization
Attention All Independent Ambulance Suppliers! If you are providing repetitive, scheduled, non-emergent ambulance transports (RSNAT), you'll want to attend this webinar. Join us to learn everything you need to know about the RSNAT program.
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Posting Date: 04/08/2025
Introduction to Medicare Part I
Join us for Introduction to Medicare Part I, if you are a new provider/staff member or need a refresher in the Medicare Part B Program. Topics include Jurisdictions, NGS Website, Medicare Enrollment, Electronic Billing, Medicare Compliance, [...]
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
Medicare Part B Ambulance Coverage, Basics and Billing
During this webinar, we'll educate new staff or those needing a refresher on basic Medicare Part B ambulance billing guidelines.
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Posting Date: 03/26/2025
NGSConnex: Part B Redetermination Electronic Notification Letters
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 [...]
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Posting Date: 03/25/2025
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.
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Posting Date: 03/31/2025
Rural Health Clinic Billing Basics
This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Medicare billing requirements for rural health clinics (RHC), including the definition of a qualifying visit, locations where billable RHC services can occur, claim coding guidelines and [...]
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