New Medicare Card: Open Door Forum — September 11

News

• Promoting Interoperability: 2019 PDMP Bonus Measure
• Beneficiary Notices Initiative Mailbox Portal
• Promoting Interoperability: 2020 Eligible Hospital eCQM Flows
• DMEPOS: Nationwide Expansion of Required PA of Pressure Reducing Support Surfaces

Compliance

• IRF Services: Follow Medicare Billing Requirements

Events

• MIPS Value Pathways RFI Webinar — September 4
• Venipuncture: Comparative Billing Report Webinar — September 5
• Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences Call — September 10
• New Medicare Card: Open Door Forum— September 11
• Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation Tool ODF – September 12
• Opioids: What’s an “Outlier Prescriber”? Listening Session — September 17
• Overall Hospital Star Ratings Listening Session - September 19

MLN Matters® Articles

• New Documentation Requirements for Filing Medicare Cost Reports
• Update to Hospice Payment Rates, Hospice Cap, Hospice Wage Index and Hospice Pricer for FY 2020
• Claim Status Category and Claim Status Codes Update
• Implement Operating Rules - Phase III Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) 360 Uniform Use of Claim Adjustment Reason Codes (CARC), Remittance Advice Remark Codes (RARC) and Claim Adjustment Group Code (CAGC) Rule - Update from Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) CORE
• Home Health (HH) Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) - Revised and Additional Manual Instructions
• 2020 Annual Update for the Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) Bonus Payments
• Healthcare Provider Taxonomy Codes (HPTCs) October 2019 Code set Update
• Implementation to Exchange the List of Electronic Medical Documentation Requests (eMDR) for Registered Providers via the Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD) System — Revised

Publications

• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Booklet — Revised

Multimedia

• Physician Fee Schedule Listening Session: Audio Recording and Transcript
• IRF Appeals Settlement Call: Audio Recording and Transcript
• OPPS and ASC Listening Session: Audio Recording and Transcript
• ESRD QIP Call: Audio Recording and Transcript
• SNF PPS: Patient Driven Payment Model Videos
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs): Improving Documentation Positively Impacts CERT Web-Based Training Course — Revised