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- December 4, 2013
CMS Finalizes Physician Payment Rates for 2014
Read moreFinal Rule Focuses on Improved Care Coordination On November 27, CMS finalized payment rates and policies for 2014, including a major proposal to support care management outside the routine office interaction as well as other policies to promote high quality care and efficiency in Medicare. CMS’ care coordination policy...
00 - December 4, 2013
CMS Special Open Door Forum
Read moreThe next Special Open Door Forum: Final Rule CMS-1599-F: Discussion of the Hospital Inpatient Admission Order and Certification; 2 Midnight Benchmark for Inpatient Hospital Admissions is scheduled for Thursday December 19, 2013 from 1:00pm – 2:00pm, ET. If you wish to participate, dial 1-866-501-5502; Conference ID: 16505942. Please see...
- November 27, 2013
QHi and How CRHC Can Help
Read moreQuality Health Indicators (QHi) is a user driven program specifically designed to facilitate benchmarking for small rural facilities. Taking part in QHi is free for CAHs. Participants benchmark against self-defined peer groups to learn from the best practices of other organizations in order to adopt new processes in 4 categories:...
- November 27, 2013
CREATE Tip of the Week – Entity Eligibility
Read moreThis week’s tip focuses on what it means to be an “eligible entity” to apply for CREATE funding. Since CREATE is a part of the provider grant through CDPHE, it’s important to understand exactly what kind of EMS entity can apply for funding. All recognized training center and state...
- November 27, 2013
Searching for a Local Coverage Determination (LCD)
Read moreComing this December 2013, Novitas will begin to direct customers to the Medicare Coverage Database (MCD) for retired LCDs and previous versions of currently active LCDs. This change will provide our customers with a more robust LCD search functionality. The Medical Policy page of the Novitas Solutions website will...
- November 26, 2013
CREATE Tip of the Week – Entity Eligibility
Read moreIn past CREATE Tips of the Week, we’ve talked about participant eligibility. This week’s tip touches on entity eligibility. Eligible entities have to be either a recognized training center or state recognized EMS provider. If an applying entity is neither, the entity must have some mechanism in place to...
- November 26, 2013
Announcements from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
Read moreFunding Opportunities1. The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy is pleased to announce the release of the fiscal year 2014 Rural Health Network Development Planning Grant Program. The purpose of this program is to assist in the development of an integrated healthcare network. A technical assistance call will be...
- November 26, 2013
Novitas Service Impact Updates
Read moreAs a result of recent system changes at Novitas, customers may experience the following temporary operational difficulties:(Updated as of 11/26/2013) Issue Cause/Resolution Status/Date Resolved What Can You Do? Not All Website Content Is Appropriately Tagged Or Split (Part A or Part B) We are in the process of correcting website content ...
- November 26, 2013
MLN Connects Videos on ICD-10
Read moreAre you ready to transition to ICD-10 on October 1, 2014? MLN Connects™ videos on the CMS YouTube Channel can help you prepare. In the “ICD-10: Implementation for Physicians, Partial Code Freeze, and MS-DRG Conversion Project” video, Pat Brooks and Dr. Daniel Duvall from the Center for Medicare, Hospital...
- November 26, 2013
Medicare Learning Network: ICD-10 Testing
Read moreThis Medicare Learning Network article is intended for Medicare providers and suppliers submitting claims to Medicare contractors (A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors (A/B MACs), Home Health and Hospice MACs (HHH MACs) and the Durable Medical Equipment MACs (DME MACs) for services to Medicare beneficiaries. The article is based on Change...
