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In This Edition:
MLN Connects® National Provider Calls
- Medicare Acute Care Quality and Reporting Programs — Registration Now Open
- New MLN Connects® National Provider Call Audio Recording and Transcript
CMS Events
- Special Open Door Forum: Home Health Electronic and Paper Clinical Templates
- Proposed FY 2016 Skilled Nursing Facility Payment and Policy Changes
- Proposed FY 2016 Inpatient and Long-Term Care Hospital Payment and Policy Changes
- DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Round 1 2017 Announced
- National Minority Health Month
- CMS Releases Hospital Compare Star Ratings
- New Hospice Reports Available in CASPER
- CMS to Release Transthoracic Echocardiography Comparative Billing Report in May
- CMS to Award Special Innovation Projects for Partnership-Driven Quality Improvement Projects
- CMS is Accepting Suggestions for Potential PQRS Measures
Claims, Pricers, and Codes
- Coordination of Benefits Issue Impacting Outpatient Hospital Claims
- Updated: Correcting the Display Issue for OPPS Claims Where Value Code “FD” Is Present
Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products
- “Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities” Podcast — Released
- “Vaccine and Vaccine Administration Payments under Medicare Part D” Fact Sheet — Revised
- “Home Health Prospective Payment System” Fact Sheet — Revised
- “Medicare Fraud and Abuse: Prevention, Detection, and Reporting” Web-Based Training Course — Revised
- New Medicare Learning Network® Educational Web Guides Fast Fact
