December 22, 2022
MLN Connects Newsletter: Dec 22, 2022
Editor's Note:
Happy holidays from the MLN Connects team. We’ll release the next regular edition on Thursday, January 5, 2023.
News
- HHS Proposes to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature Processes to Improve the Care Experience for Patients and Providers
- Long-Term Care Hospital Provider Preview Reports: Review by January 17
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Provider Preview Reports: Review by January 17
- Hospital Ownership Data Release
- Clotting Factor: CY 2023 Furnishing Fee
- Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: CY 2023 Payment Rates
- CMS Burden Reduction News & Insights
Claims, Pricers, & Codes
- Medicare Part B Drug Pricing Files & Revisions: January Update
- Integrated Outpatient Code Editor: Version 24.0
- DMEPOS: Revised 2023 Fee Schedule Public Use File
- National Correct Coding Initiative: Annual Policy Manual Update & Information on Other Payers
MLN Matters® Articles
- Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: CY 2023 Annual Update
- Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System: January 2023 Update
- Laboratory Edit Software Changes: April 2023
- New Medicare Part B Immunosuppressant Drug Benefit
- Extension of Changes to the Low-Volume Hospital Payment Adjustment and the Medicare Dependent Hospital Program – Revised
Publications
- Medicare Part B Inflation Rebate Guidance: Use of the 340B Modifier
- Rural Emergency Hospitals
- Intravenous Immune Globulin Demonstration – Revised
- Medicare Preventive Services – Revised
From Our Federal Partners
- CDC Interim Guidance: Antiviral Treatment of Influenza
- Important Updates from the CDC on COVID-19 Therapeutics for Treatment & Prevention