January 28, 2016
MLN Connects® for January 28, 2016
In This Edition:
MLN Connects® Events
- IMPACT Act: Connecting Post-Acute Care across the Care Continuum Call — Last Chance to Register
Other CMS Events
- Special Open Door Forum: Understanding the IMPACT Act
- LTCH Quality Reporting Program Webinar
- Physician Compare Public Reporting Information Sessions
Medicare Learning Network® Publications and Multimedia
- CMS Provider Minute: Duplicate Professional Claims Video — New
- Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notices Booklet — Revised
- Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Reference Fact Sheet — Revised
- Suite of Products & Resources for Billers & Coders Educational Tool — Revised
- Suite of Products & Resources for Compliance Officers Educational Tool — Revised
- Suite of Products & Resources for Educators & Students Educational Tool — Revised
- Suite of Products & Resources for Inpatient Hospitals Educational Tool — Revised
- Updated MLN Matters® Search Indices
- New Educational Web Guides Fast Fact
Announcements
- CMS Releases Guide to Preventing Readmissions among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries
- PQRS: Submission Timeframes for 2015 Data
- Comment Period for IMPACT Act Measures Extended to January 29
- PQRS: Self-Nomination for 2016 Qualified Registries and QCDRs Open through January 31
- CMS to Release a Comparative Billing Report on Modifier 25: Internal Medicine in February
- CMS Seeks Public Comments on Draft Quality Measure Development Plan by March 1
- Prior Authorization for Certain DMEPOS Items: FAQs on the Final Rule
- PEPPERs Available for SNFs, HHAs, Hospices, CAHs, LTCHs, IPFs, IRFs and PHPs
- Payment for Group 3 Power Wheelchair Cushions and Accessories
- Changes to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program Hardship Exception Process
- Testing QRDA l Release 2 and QRDA III Release 1 Files
Claims, Pricers, and Codes
- New Drug Testing Laboratory Codes Editing Incorrectly