January 9, 2020
MLN Connects® for Thursday, January 9, 2020
Read the Latest Quality Payment Program Updates
News
- Quality Payment Program: 2018 Performance Data
- Quality Payment Program APM Incentive Payment: Verify Banking Information
- Quality Payment Program: Participation Status Tool Includes Third Snapshot of Data
- Quality Payment Program: Recheck Your Final 2019 MIPS Eligibility
- Quality Payment Program: Check Your Initial 2020 MIPS Eligibility
- Quality Payment Program: Qualified Registries and QCDRs for CY 2020
- Hospice Provider Preview Reports: Review Your Data by January 15
- Feedback on Scope of Practice: Send Recommendations by January 17
- Promoting Interoperability Programs: Deadline to Submit 2019 Data is March 2
- Quality Payment Program: MIPS 2019 Data Submission Period Open through March 31
- Hospitals: New Beneficiary Notices (IM, DND, and MOON) Required April 1
- Hospital Outpatient Departments: Prior Authorization Process Begins July 1
- Home Health Compare: Preview Reports for April Refresh
- Clinical Laboratory Data Reporting Delayed
- ICD-10-CM Browser Tool
- Provider Enrollment Application Fee Amount for CY 2020
- Nursing Home Quality Initiative: Draft 2020 MDS Item Sets
- Hospice Quality Reporting Program News
- Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Billing Requirements
- Get Your Patients Off to a Healthy Start in 2020
- Looking for Educational Materials?
Compliance
- Chiropractic Services: Comply with Medicare Billing Requirements
Events
- Quality Payment Program: QCDR Measures Webinar – January 13
- ESRD Quality Incentive Program: CY 2020 ESRD PPS Final Rule Call – January 14
- Listening Sessions on MAC Opportunities to Enhance Provider Experience – January 15, 22, or 29
MLN Matters® Articles
- Internet Only Manual Update to Pub 100-04, Chapter 16, Section 40.8 – Laboratory Date of Service Policy
- IVIG Demonstration: Payment Update for 2020
- January 2020 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System
- Manual Update to Publication (Pub.) 100-04, Chapter 20, to Revise the Subsection 10 – Where to Bill Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) and Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (PEN) Items and Services
- Rural Health Clinic (RHC) and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 13 Update
- New Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) Get It, Use It – Reissued
- Home Health Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) – Split Implementation – Revised
Publications
- MLN Catalog – January 2020 Edition
- Quality Payment Program and MIPS Resources
- Diabetes Resources
- Hospice Payment System – Revised
- Medicare Diabetes Prevention and Diabetes Self-Management Training – Revised
- Provider Compliance Tips for Hospital Based Hospice – Revised
Multimedia
- eCQM: CMS Measure Collaboration Workspace