2019 Home Health & Hospice News and Articles Archive
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December 2019
- Provider Enrollment Application Fee Amount for CY 2020 – 12.31.19
- The January 2020 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 12.31.19
- January 2020 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 12.19.19
- January 2020 Release "Dark" Days for the Common Working File (CWF) Hosts – 12.17.19
- Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Screen Changes – 12.17.19
- Provider Education Message: HHAs: Avoid Payment Delays, Register for iQIES Now – 12.16.19
- Home Health PDGM Website Updates – 12.12.19
- Reminder: myCGS Status Button! – 12.12.19
- HHAs: Get Help Registering for iQIES by December 23 – 12.09.19
- Share Your Experience Today! – 12.05.19
- HHAs: Get Help Registering for iQIES by December 23 – 12.02.19
November 2019
- The December 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 11.26.19
- HHAs: Avoid Payment Delays, Register for iQIES by December 23 – 11.26.19
- Livanta's Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for Healthcare Providers – 11.26.19
- Updated Home Health Documentation Tool – 11.26.19
- December 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 11.26.19
- Reducing Home Health Errors for Reason Codes (RC) 38107 – 11.26.19
- HHAs: Avoid Payment Delays, Register for iQIES by December 23 – 11.21.19
- Update: Issue with Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Information –11.21.19
- New Medicare Card: Get Paid January 1, 2020 – Use MBIs Now – 11.19.19
- November 15, 2019 Deadline! Take Action Today and Recertify Your Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Access! – 11.12.19
- Home Health Face-to-Face Primary Reason for Home Care – 11.06.19
- Issue with Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Information – 11.06.19
- Protect Your Patients' Identities: Use the MBI Now! – 11.05.19
October 2019
- The November 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 10.31.19
- Updated 2020 Amount in Controversy (AIC) for Administrative Law Judge Hearings or Federal District Court Appeals – 10.29.19
- New Medicare Card: Claim Reject Codes After January 1 – 10.29.19
- Maryland Nurse Practitioners and Home Health Providers: What You Need to Know! – 10.29.19
- UPDATE: Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP), Demand Letters – 10.28.19
- Is Your Vendor/Clearinghouse Submitting Your Claims with the MBI? – 10.22.19
- November 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 10.22.19
- Do Not Delay! Recertify Your Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Access Today!!! – 10.17.19
- Update: Common Working File (CWF) Missing Beneficiary Eligibility Information – 10.15.19
- Medicare MBI Look-Up Tool Users – 10.15.19
- It's Time to Start Submitting Claims With the MBI – 10.15.19
- Medicare Credit Balance Quarterly Reminder – 10.15.19
- Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) Demand Letters – 10.15.19
- Do Not Delay! Recertify Your Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Access Today!!! – 10.08.19
- Notify Us If You File Bankruptcy – 10.08.19
- Ohio Open Public LCD Discussion Meeting: Draft Local Coverage Determinations – Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 – 10.01.19
- Kentucky Open Public LCD Discussion Meeting: Draft Local Coverage Determinations – October 29th, 2019 – 10.01.19
September 2019
- The October 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 09.30.19
- Attention: Complete the DDE PPTN Annual Recertification Form TODAY! – 09.26.19
- October 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 09.26.19
- myCGS Registration and Password Tips – 09.26.19
- October 2019 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File (CWF) Hosts – 09.26.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 09.24.19
- If You Don't Have It, Get It, Then Use It! – 09.24.19
- Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Screen Changes – 09.17.19
- Updated Hospice Payment Rate Calculator – 09.12.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 09.10.19
- New Medicare Card: Open Door Forum – September 11 – 09.03.19
August 2019
- The September 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 08.30.19
- Medicare MBI Look-Up Tool Users – 08.29.19
- New Hospice Occurrence Code 27 Calculator – 08.29.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 08.29.19
- September 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 08.27.19
- Who Do You Contact With myCGS Log-in Issues? – 08.20.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 08.13.19
- No Longer Accepting Requests to Access CWF Eligibility Systems – 08.08.19
- CGS Resource for Submitting or Correcting Hospice Notices – 08.06.19
- Take Action Now: Part A Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 08.06.19
July 2019
- The August 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 07.31.19
- New Customer Service Resource: How Do I…? – 07.30.19
- Common Working File (CWF) Dark Day for Annual History Archive – 07.30.19
- The Summer 2019 edition of the EDI Connection is now available – 07.29.19
- August 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 07.23.19
- Is Your Vendor/Clearinghouse Submitting Your Claims with the MBI? – 07.23.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 07.23.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 07.16.19
- Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) Post Probe Education Call Request Timeliness Reminder – 07.16.19
- Medicare Credit Balance Quarterly Reminder – 07.16.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 07.09.19
- Upcoming myCGS Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Look-Up Tool Outage – 07.03.19
- Take Action Now: Home Health & Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 07.02.19
June 2019
- The July 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 06.28.19
- Hospice Sequential Billing Reminder: Reason Code 37402 – 06.25.19
- Upcoming myCGS Portal Outage – 06.25.19
- July 2019 HHH Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 06.25.19
- New FISS Reason Code Search and Resolution Feature – 06.25.19
- July 2019 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File (CWF) Hosts – 06.20.19
- Take Action Now: Hospice Providers FISS DDE User ID Annual Recertification – 06.18.19
- Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Screen Changes – 06.18.19
- New Home Health and Hospice Video Education – 06.18.19
- Upcoming myCGS Portal Outages – 06.18.19
- Fraud Alert: Genetic Testing Scam – 06.13.19
- Multijurisdictional Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) Meeting Regarding Pharmacogenomics - Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 – 06.11.19
- Medicare MBI Look-Up Tool Outages – 06.11.19
- Update to CGS Home Health PDGM Web Page – 06.04.19
- Kentucky & Ohio Joint Onsite Open/Public Discussion/Meeting on Draft/Revised LCDs: Draft Local Coverage Determinations – Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 – 06.04.19
May 2019
- Billing Reminder: Claim Change Reason (Condition) Code D9 – 05.30.19
- The June 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 05.30.19
- June 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 05.28.19
- New Revised J15 DDE PPTN Application/Reactivation Form – 05.28.19
- Targeted Probe and Educate Progress Update – 05.16.19
- What to Expect When Enrolling – 05.16.19
- Medicare MBI Look-Up Tool Outages – 05.14.19
- Registering for myCGS? Check here first! – 05.14.19
- CMS Guidance for No Matching OASIS – 05.14.19
April 2019
- The May 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 04.30.19
- Who to Contact for FISS DDE and myCGS Password Resets – 04.26.19
- Foot Care – 04.25.19
- May 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 04.25.19
- Home Health Therapy Goals Reminder – 04.18.19
- Attention myCGS Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Look-Up Tool Users – 04.16.19
- Code Migration in Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) – 04.11.19
- NEW Home Health Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) Web Page – 04.11.19
- myCGS Enhancement: Request for Anticipated Payment (RAP) Comparative Billing Report (CBR) for Home Health Agencies (HHAs) – 04.09.19
- myCGS Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Look-Up Tool Outages – 04.02.19
- Medicare Credit Balance Quarterly Reminder – 04.02.19
March 2019
- The April 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 03.29.19
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Unavailable Saturday, April 27th – 03.28.19
- myCGS Additional Documentation Request (ADR) and General Questions – 03.26.19
- April 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 03.26.19
- April 2019 Release "Dark Days" for the Common Working File (CWF) Hosts – 03.21.19
- myCGS Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Look-Up Tool Outages – 03.21.19
- Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) Direct Data Entry (DDE) Screen Changes – 03.19.19
- Don't Forget to Log In! – 03.12.19
- New Targeted Probe & Educate (TPE) Resource – 03.07.19
- Process Improvements Based On Your 2018 MSI Survey Feedback! – 03.07.19
- Coming in March! – 03.05.19
- Recordings of Recent Hospice Webinars Now Available – 03.05.19
- New myCGS Status Button! – 03.05.19
- The Winter 2019 edition of the EDI Connection is now available – 03.01.19
February 2019
- The March 2019 Home Health and Hospice Medicare Bulletin is now available – 02.28.19
- "New to myCGS" - Administrator Unlock Feature – 02.28.19
- March 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 02.26.19
- CMS National Provider Compliance Conference Adding Clarity to Compliance – 02.21.19
- Hospice Notice of Termination/Revocation (NOTR) – 8XB Billing Reminders – 02.19.19
- Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) Will Host a Multi-jurisdictional Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) via WebEx on March 20, 2019, 1-4 pm EST – 02.18.19
- Update to Value Code 85 – 02.12.19
- Reducing Home Health Errors for Reason Codes (RC) 38107 – 02.12.
- MLN Connects® for Thursday, February 7, 2019 – 02.07.19
- Home Health Rural Add-on Payments Based on County of Residence – 02.07.19
- Need a Duplicate Electronic Remittance or Claim Response Report? Online Ordering is Available and Easy with the EDI Report Request Tool! – 02.07.19
- February 2019 Home Health and Hospice Provider Contact Center (PCC) Training – 02.05.19