New Medicare Card: Read the Updated MLN Matters Article

News

• Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings: Upcoming Enhancement
• Pneumococcal Vaccine Eligibility Data Issue
• Venipuncture: Comparative Billing Report in August
• SNF Provider Preview Reports: Review Your Data by September 16
• SNF PPS Patient Driven Payment Model: Get Ready for Implementation on October 1
• Promoting Interoperability: 2019 Program Requirements for Hospitals
• Quality Payment Program Exception Applications
• Hospice Compare Refresh
• Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: Become a Medicare Enrolled Supplier
• CBRs: We Want Your Feedback

Compliance

• Ambulance Fee Schedule and Medicare Transports

Claims, Pricers & Codes

• MACRA Patient Relationship Categories and Codes: Reporting HCPCS Level II Modifiers

Events

• Understanding Your SNF VBP Program Performance Score Report Call — August 27
• Dementia Care: Supporting Comfort and Resident Preferences Call — September 10

MLN Matters® Articles

• New Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Get It, Use It — Reissued
• Medicare Coverable Services for Integrative and Non-pharmacological Chronic Pain Management
• Quarterly Update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database (MPFSDB) – October 2019 Update
• Manual Update to Sections 1.2 and 10.2.1 in Chapter 18 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual
• Quarterly Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Drug/Biological Code Changes - October 2019 Update
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Annual Update: Prospective Payment System (PPS) Pricer Changes for FY 2020 — Revised

Publications

• MLN Catalog September 2019 Edition
• Ambulance Fee Schedule and Medicare Transports
• QPP: New Resources
• Getting Started with Hospice CASPER Review and Correct Reports
• Behavioral Health Integration — Revised
• Critical Access Hospital — Revised
• Swing Bed Services — Revised
• Screening Pap Tests and Pelvic Examinations Booklet — Revised
• Hospices: CASPER QM Fact Sheet — Updated