April 30, 2020
MLN Connects® for Thursday, April 30, 2020
COVID-19: Lessons from the Front Lines
News
- Infection Control Guidance to Home Health Agencies on COVID-19
- Now Available: Nursing Home Five Star Quality Rating System Updates, Nursing Home Staff Counts, and Frequently Asked Questions
- CMS Adds New COVID-19 Clinical Trials Improvement Activity to the Quality Payment Program
- Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: Become a Medicare Enrolled Supplier
Claims, Pricers & Codes
- Home Health Claims: Correcting Recoding Errors
Events
- COVID-19: Lessons from the Front Lines Calls – May 1 and 8
- COVID-19: Home Health and Hospice Call – May 5
- COVID-19: Office Hours Call – May 5
- COVID-19: Nursing Homes Call – May 6
MLN Matters® Articles
- July 2020 Quarterly Update to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Pricer
- Quarterly Update to the Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Pricer
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes Subject to and Excluded from Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) Edits – Revised
- Implement Operating Rules – Phase III Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA) Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT): Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) 360 Uniform Use of Claim Adjustment Reason Codes (CARC), Remittance Advice Remark Codes (RARC) and Claim Adjustment Group Code (CAGC) Rule – Update from Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) CORE – Revised
Publications
- April 2020 Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, Anesthesiologist Assistants, and Physician Assistants – Revised
- Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System – Revised
- Dual Eligible Beneficiaries Under Medicare and Medicaid – Revised
- Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System – Revised
- How to Use the Searchable Medicare Physician Fee Schedule – Revised
- Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System – Revised
Multimedia
- Combating Medicare Parts C and D Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Web-Based Training Course – Revised
- Medicare Parts C and D General Compliance Training Web-Based Training Course – Revised