CMS Medicare FFS Provider e-News for Thursday, February 7, 2013
http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/FFSProvPartProg/Downloads/2013-02-07-Enews.pdf
This edition of the CMS e-News includes the following information:
National Provider Calls
- How to Avoid a 2014 eRx and 2015 PQRS Payment Adjustment — Registration Now Open
- End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program – Payment Year 2015 Final Rule — Registration Now Open
Other Calls, Meetings, and Events
- ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting — Registration Now Open
Announcements and Reminders
- Preventing Heart Disease and Increasing Awareness of its Affects
- Flu Season Isn’t Over—Continue to Recommend Vaccination
- Affordable Care Act “Sunshine” Rule Increases Transparency in Health Care
- Reforms of Regulatory Requirements to Save Health Care Providers $676 Million Annually
- CMS Announces New Initiative to Improve End-Stage Renal Disease Care
- 2013 ICD-10-CM Present on Admission Exempt Code List Now Available
- Hospice Quality Reporting Program Structural Measure Deadline has Passed: NQF #0209 Deadline is April 1
- DMEPOS Competitive Bidding — Fact Sheet Revised
- Diabetic Testing Supplies Provisions of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
- February 28th is the Last Day for EPs to Submit Medicare Part B Claims for the EHR Incentive Programs
MLN Educational Products Update
- “Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter *Volume 3, Issue 2+” Educational Tool — Released
- “Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System” Fact Sheets — Revised
- “Medicare Fraud & Abuse: Prevention, Detection, and Reporting” Fact Sheet — Reminder
- “Physician Quality Reporting System: Physician Compare” Fact Sheet