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MLN Connects® National Provider Calls
- 2014 Mid-Year QRURs — Last Chance to Register
- Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO: Application Review — Register Now
- National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI — Register Now
- Hospice Quality and Hospice Item Set Manual V1.02 — Register Now
- ICD-10: Preparing for Implementation and New ICD-10-PCS Section X — Register Now
- ESRD QIP: Reviewing Your Facility's PY 2016 Performance Data — Registration Now Open
- ESRD QIP: Proposed Rule for Payment Year 2019 — Registration Now Open
- New MLN Connects® National Provider Call Audio Recording and Transcript
- Participate in Final ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Week: June 1 through 5
- Special Open Door Forum: Home Health Quality Reporting Requirements
- Physician Compare Virtual Office Hour Session
- EHR Proposed Rules: Recordings and Presentations from Webinars
- Notices of Intent to Apply for Medicare Shared Savings Program January 1, 2016, Start Date Due by May 29
- 2015 PQRS GPRO: 4 Weeks Left to Register by June 30 Deadline
- HHS Awards $112 Million to Help 5,000 Primary Care Professionals Advance Heart Health
- Guidance on Beneficiary Disenrollments by Long Term Care Facilities
- ICD-10 FAQs: CMNs and Prescriptions
- Transition to ICD-10 for Home Health
- April 2015 IOCE Updated with ICD-10-CM Codes
- Coding for ICD-10-CM: Continue to Report CPT/HCPCS Modifiers for Laterality
- Mass Adjustment of FQHC PPS Claims
- “Medically Unlikely Edits Compliant” Podcast — Released
- “Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program - A Compilation of 2013 Educational Resources” Booklet — Released
- “Medicare Appeals Process” Fact Sheet — Revised
Revised Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 855R Application - Reassignment of Medicare Benefits
Effective June 1, 2015, physicians, non-physician practitioners, providers, and suppliers must use the revised CMS 855R (Reassignment of Benefits) application. The new version of the CMS 855R (11/12) can be accessed on either the CMS.gov or Novitas Solutions websites. After May 31, 2015, Novitas will return any CMS 855R applications submitted on the previous version (07/11).
Please refer to the CMS Medicare Learning Network (MLN) article SE1432 for more information.
