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...

JH Part A Teleconference Handout: “Ask-the-Contractor Teleconference”  March 19, 2014 (10:00am-11:00am CT) Join us for our Jurisdiction H Part A “Ask-the-Contractor Teleconference” on March 19, 2014 at 10:00am CT. During this teleconference, we will discuss the most current Medicare changes and allow you to interact directly with representatives from...

Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Matters Articles from CMS New: MM8658 – April 2014 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) Specifications Version 15.1 Revised: MM8465 – International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) Testing with Providers through the Common Edits and Enhancements Module (CEM) and Common Electronic Data Interchange (CEDI)

JH Part A Top Claim Submission Errors – February 2014 The Part A Top Claim Submission Errors for February 2014 have been posted. Please review resolutions to the errors that may impact you.

The following JH MAC Local Coverage Determination (LCD) is posted for notice and will become effective for dates of service on or after May 1, 2014: Hemophilia Factor Products (L32735) The following JH MAC Local Coverage Determinations (LCDs) have been revised: 3D Interpretation and Reporting of Imaging Studies (L32602)...