CMS Update -February 7, 2013

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

 

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