Road to 10: The Small Physicians Practices Route to ICD-10 Are you a small physicians practice wondering how to transition to ICD-10? Well you’re in luck!!  We posted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Road to 10: The Small Physicians Practices Route to ICD-10, on the ICD-10 Implementation...

Part B Webinar Handout: “Using Place of Service Codes Correctly” March 19, 2014 (2:00pm -3:00pm ET, 1:00pm-2:00pm CT) If you are struggling to determine which place of service codes you need to use to complete your Medicare billing, then you must attend our webinar on “Using Place of Service...

UPDATED: Important Announcement for J12901 and J04911 Providers Connecting to the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Data Center Effective Monday, March 24, 2014, you will no longer access FISS via HP Data Center. Instead, you will be accessing through the Companion Data System (CDS). Please read the full details of this article...

April 2014 Release “Dark Days” for the Common Working File (CWF) Hosts For the upcoming April 2014 Release, Change Request (CR) 8382, Common Working File (CWF) Part A Claim Record Expansion, the CWF Hosts will be performing a history conversion. Due to the anticipated duration of this activity, there...

Pathway for SGR Reform Act of 2013 – FY 2014 Low Volume 412.101 Applications Section 1105 – Extension of Medicare Inpatient Hospital Payment Adjustment for Low-Volume Hospitals – The Affordable Care Act allowed qualifying low-volume hospitals to receive add-on payments based on the number of Medicare discharges from the...

Customer Contact Center Training Schedule for April 2014 The Customer Contact Centers will close for training on Friday, April 4th and thereafter Thursday afternoons in the month of April. Please visit our Holiday and Training webpage for all of the dates and times.

Don’t miss this week’s Medicare Insights Weekly Podcast Interview with Medial Affairs We wrap up our podcast series on Local Coverage Determinations with an interview with a representative from Medical Affairs. If you haven’t listened to our podcasts, this is the time to start! Information on podcast subscription can...

Submitting Medical Records by Disc (CD or DVD) We are receiving encrypted CD’s without passwords- or they are defective or not readable. Failure to obtain the password from you will impact access to the medical records and may have a negative impact on your claim. Please review bulletin, Submitting...