February 27, 2020
MLN Connects® for Thursday, February 27, 2020
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