September 10, 2020
MLN Connects® for Thursday, September 10, 2020
CMS Care Compare Empowers Patients
News
- CMS Care Compare Empowers Patients When Making Important Health Care Decisions
- Open Payments: Adding 5 Provider Types in 2021
- Breast Re-Excision: Comparative Billing Report in September
Events
- CMS-CDC Fundamentals of COVID-19 Prevention for Nursing Home Management Call – September 10
- Dementia Care Call – September 22
MLN Matters® Articles
- October 2020 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)
- Update to Hospice Payment Rates, Hospice Cap, Hospice Wage Index and Hospice Pricer for FY 2021
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Annual Update: Prospective Payment System (PPS) Pricer Changes for FY 2021
- Internet Only Manual Update to Pub. 100-04, Chapter 16, Section 60.1.2 and Pub. 100-04, Chapter 26, Section 10.4, Item 19
- Update to the Model Admission Questions for Providers to Ask Medicare Beneficiaries
- National Coverage Determination (NCD 30.3.3): Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain (cLBP) – Revised
Publications
- Understanding Your Remittance Advice Reports
- Home Health, Hospice, IRF, LTCH, & SNF Quality Reporting Programs: COVID-19 Public Reporting
Multimedia
- Pain Management Listening Session: Audio Recording & Transcript
- Introduction to the LTCH Quality Reporting Program Web-Based Training
- Introduction to the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Web-Based Training