COVID-19 Coding Guidance

News

• Quality Payment Program: MIPS 2019 Data Submission Period Open through March 31
• Anesthesia Modifiers: Comparative Billing Report in March

Compliance

• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Services: Follow Medicare Billing Requirements

Claims, Pricers & Codes

• COVID-19: New ICD-10-CM Code and Interim Coding Guidance
• SNF PDPM Claims Issue
• FQHC: Mass Adjustment of Claims

Events

• Dementia Care: CMS Toolkits Call — March 3
• Part A Providers: QIC Appeals Demonstration Call — March 5
• Ground Ambulance Organizations: Data Collection for Public Safety-Based Organizations Call — March 12
• Open Payments: Your Role in Health Care Transparency Call — March 19

MLN Matters® Articles

• Quarterly Update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database (MPFSDB) - April 2020 Update
• Implementation of the Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Discharge Payment Percentage (DPP) Payment Adjustment
• Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for Advanced Diagnostic Imaging- Approval of Using the K3 Segment for Institutional Claims — Revised
• Accepting Payment from Patients with a Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement — Revised
• January 2020 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) Specifications Version 21.0 — Revised

Publications

• Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, Volume 10, Issue 2
• Quality Payment Program: 2020 Resources