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December 18, 2025

MLN Connects® Newsletter for Thursday, December 18, 2025

News

  • MAHA ELEVATE Brings Lifestyle Medicine to Original Medicare
  • Outpatient Prospective Payment System Drug Acquisition Cost Survey: Are You Prepared?
  • Information for Critical Access Hospitals

Compliance

  • Acute Care Hospital Outpatient Services for Hospice Enrollees: Reduce Improper Payments

Claims, Pricers & Codes

  • Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly: Claims Processing Updates Effective July 1, 2026
  • Skilled Nursing Facility Consolidated Billing: CY 2026 HCPCS Codes

Events

  • Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals: PEPPER Webinar — January 6

MLN Matters® Articles

  • Adding Extravascular Defibrillator Codes to National Coverage Determination 20.4: Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators
  • Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Claims: End of Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy & KX Modifier Requirement
  • Home Health Prospective Payment System: CY 2026 Rate Update
  • ICD-10 & Other Coding Revisions to National Coverage Determinations: April 2026 Update
  • Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System: FY 2026 Updates

Publications & Multimedia

  • Medicare Provider Compliance Tips — Revised Webpage
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