Check Provider Enrollment Application Status

This inquiry tool can be used to check on the status of your application. How to Search To perform a search please enter into a field below either a valid Case Number/Web Tracking ID (Option 1) or a valid National Provider [...]

Technical Guides and Information

Technical Guides and Information 5010 Process Flow Chart X12 Website: Technical Reports/Implementation Guides, Newsletters and X12 Transaction Sets

Accessing the Inquiries Submenu

Chapter IV: Inquiries Submenu (01) Accessing the Inquiries Submenu Purpose This section explains how to access the Inquiries submenu from the Main Menu. Task To access the Inquiries submenu from the FISS/DDE Provider Online System Main [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, April 14, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, April 14, 2021 J&J COVID-19 Vaccine: Health Alert The CDC issued a Health Alert, about the CDC and FDA’s recommended pause in the use of the J&J COVID-19 vaccine, in part, to ensure that [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, April 20, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Tuesday, April 20, 2021 COVID-19 Update: FDA Revoked the EUA for Bamlanivimab When Administered Alone On April 16, the FDA revoked the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab, when administered [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 20, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, May 20, 2021 Mental Health: Medicare Covers Preventive Services View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation: Submit Beta Test Application by June 14 Mental [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, June 3, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, June 3, 2021 MACs Resume Medical Review View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Medicare Shared Savings Program: Submit Notice of Intent to Apply by June 7 Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories: Key Dates [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 8, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 8, 2021 COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments: Updated FAQs View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payments: Updated FAQs COVID-19 Snapshot: [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 22, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 22, 2021 COVID-19: EUA for Tocilizumab Monoclonal Antibody Product View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News COVID-19: EUA for Tocilizumab Monoclonal Antibody Product Medicare Ground [...]

Evaluation and Management

Reopening versus Redetermination

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 14, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 14, 2021 Ensuring our Nation’s Seniors Have Access to Latest Advancements View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Ensuring our Nation’s Seniors Have Access to Latest Advancements Opioid [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, March 18, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, March 18, 2021 Open Payments & You – Register for March 25 Call View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Clinical Laboratory Data Reporting Delayed Until 2022: Reminder Comprehensive Eye [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 12, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 12, 2021 COVID-19: Vaccinate Your Patients View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News COVID-19: Vaccinate Your Patients CMS Resumes Targeted Probe & Educate Program Compliance [...]

NGSConnex: Initiate and View Confirmation of Part A Quarterly Credit Balance Reports

NGSConnex: Initiate and View Confirmation of Part A Quarterly Credit Balance Reports Did you know as a Part A, HH+H and FQHC provider, you are able to use our secure self-service portal, NGSConnex, to submit your quarterly credit balance [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 21, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 21, 2021 Give Flu Shots through January & Beyond View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Hospital IPPS: FAQs on Market-Based MS-DRG Relative Weights MLN Web-Based Training: Complete Training [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, February 11, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, February 11, 2021 PFS Payment for Office & Outpatient E/M Visits View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Flu & Pneumococcal Shots: Protect Your Patients Compliance Hospices: Create an [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 24, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 24, 2021 2019 Quality Payment Program: Performance Information on Care Compare View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News 2019 Quality Payment Program: Performance Information on Care Compare [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, March 10, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, March 10, 2021 CMS Updates Nursing Home Guidance with Revised Visitation Recommendations On March 10, CMS, in collaboration with the CDC, issued updated guidance for nursing homes to safely expand [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, April 8, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, April 8, 2021 4 Proposed FY 2020 Payment Rules SNF Prospective Payment System: FY 2022 Proposed Rule Hospice Payment Rate Update for FY 2022 IRF Prospective Payment System: FY 2022 Proposed Rule [...]

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 22, 2021

MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 22, 2021 COVID-19: Partnership to Vaccinate Dialysis Patients & Health Care Personnel View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Dialysis Facilities: Partnership to Vaccinate Dialysis Patients [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 1, 2021

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, July 1, 2021 Quality Payment Program: 2021 APM Incentive Payments View this edition as a: Webpage | PDF News Quality Payment Program: 2021 APM Incentive Payments Compliance Inhalant Drugs: [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, July 1, 2021

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Thursday, July 1, 2021 CMS Proposes Changes to Reduce Health Care Disparities Among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease Proposed changes mark Innovation Center’s first direct [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 25, 2022

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, August 25, 2022 Medicare Secondary Payer: Manual Updates News Interns and Residents Information System XML Format: Updated Vendor List Claims, Pricers, & Codes Integrated Outpatient [...]

Treatment Plans for Cardiac Rehabilitation Services

Treatment Plans for Cardiac Rehabilitation Services ​​​​​​​In order for cardiac rehabilitation services to be covered under Medicare, an individualized treatment plan is required. The individualized treatment plan is a written plan tailored to [...]

Mental Health Crisis Help

Appropriate Use Criteria Program

Capable Recipients for the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage

Capable Recipients for the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage The purpose of the ABN is to inform a Medicare beneficiary before he or she receives specified items or services that, in this circumstance, Medicare certainly or probably [...]

Medicare Advance Written Notices of Noncoverage Booklet

Provider Compliance Tips for Polysomnography (Sleep Studies)

August and September 2022 LCD, Billing and Coding Article Updates

August and September 2022 LCD, Billing and Coding Article Updates Routine Foot Care and Debridement of Nails – L33636 Under the Limitations section, the active care requirement for systemic conditions has been revised to remove “qualified [...]

Prepare and Submit a Cost Report

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 30, 2022

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, June 30, 2022 No Surprises Act: Fact Sheets for Your Patients News CMS Issues Significant Updates to Improve the Safety and Quality Care for Long-Term Care Residents & Calls for Reducing Room [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, July 27, 2022

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Wednesday, July 27, 2022 3 Final FY 2023 Payment Rules: Hospices, Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities, & Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospices: Learn What’s New for Fiscal Year 2023 Inpatient Psychiatric [...]

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, July 29, 2022

MLN Connects® Special Edition for Friday, July 29, 2022 Skilled Nursing Facilities: Final FY 2023 Payment Rule Skilled Nursing Facilities: Learn What’s New for Fiscal Year 2023 CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage [...]

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, September 1, 2022

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, September 1, 2022 Payment Allowances for Influenza Vaccine News CORRECTION: Monkeypox & Smallpox Vaccines: Include Product Code on Claims COVID-19: Novavax Vaccine Authorized for Patients [...]

Prior Authorization Exemption Status Inquiry Tool Alert

Prior Authorization Exemption Status Inquiry Tool Alert National Government Services continues to see PARs submitted by exempt providers. In an effort to prevent unnecessary submission, NGS has developed a self-service inquiry tool that can [...]

Prior Authorization Exemption Status Inquiry Tool Alert

Prior Authorization Exemption Status Inquiry Tool Alert National Government Services continues to see PARs submitted by exempt providers. In an effort to prevent unnecessary submission, NGS has developed a self-service inquiry tool that can [...]

Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Pricing

Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Pricing For Medicare billing purposes, the flu season runs from August to July of the following year. Medicare Part B covers one flu shot per flu season, if medically necessary, more than one per season may be [...]

Billing for Qutenza Administration (REVISED)

Billing for Qutenza Administration (REVISED) Qutenza is topical high concentration (8%) capsaicin which is administered by a physician. The FDA approved this treatment for neuropathic pain associated with PHN in 2009 and for neuropathic pain [...]