May 9-15 is National Women's Health Week! In the spirit of National Women's Health week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services asks providers to help keep women with Medicare healthy by encouraging them to take advantage of Medicare-covered Preventive Services.
Medicare covers a wide range of preventive services that can help women with Medicare live longer, healthier lives. The preventive services Medicare covers for eligible beneficiaries include: * Screening Mammograms, * Bone Mass Measurements, * Screening Pap Tests, and * Screening Pelvic Exams. For More Information * CMS has developed a variety of educational products and resources to help health care professionals and their staff become familiar with coverage, coding, billing, and reimbursement for Medicare-covered Preventive Services. o The Guide to Medicare Preventive Services for Physicians, Providers, Suppliers and Other Health Care Professionals ~ This comprehensive resource contains coverage, coding, and payment information for the many preventive services covered by Medicare. http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/mps_guide_web-061305.pdf o Quick Reference Information: Medicare Preventive Services ~ This chart contains coverage, coding, and payment information for the many preventive services covered by Medicare in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MPS_QuickReferenceChart_1.pdf o The Bone Mass Measurements Brochure ~ This brochure provides coverage, coding, and billing information on Medicare-covered bone mass measurements. http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/bone_mass.pdf o The Bone Cancer Screenings Brochure ~ This brochure provides coverage, coding, and billing information on Medicare-covered cancer screenings, including screening mammographies, pap tests, and pelvic exams. http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/cancer_screening.pdf o The Medicare Preventive Services Series: Part 3 Web-Based Training Course (WBT) ~ This WBT includes lessons on coverage, coding, and billing for several Medicare-covered preventive services, including screening mammography, pap tests, pelvic exams, and bone mass measurements. To access the WBT, please visit the MLN homepage at: http://www.cms.gov/mlngeninfo Scroll down to "Related Links Inside CMS" and click on "WBT Modules" o The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Preventive Services Educational Products Web Page ~ provides descriptions and ordering information for Medicare Learning Network (MLN) preventive services educational products and resources for health care professionals and their staff. http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/35_PreventiveServices.asp o To order hard copies of certain MLN products, including brochures and the Quick Reference Information chart, please visit the MLN homepage at: http://www.cms.gov/mlngeninfo Scroll down to "Related Links Inside CMS" and click on "MLN Product Ordering Page" * For more information about National Women's Health Week, please visit the Office on Women's Health website at: http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw Thank you for helping CMS improve the health of women with Medicare by joining in the effort to educate eligible beneficiaries about the importance of taking advantage of Medicare-covered Preventive Services. Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf). If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm <https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm> ) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX <https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX> ) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS <http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS> ). Thank you.
