Updates from the Medicare Learning Network® § HIV Screening Brochure
§ New Fast Fact Now Available on MLN Provider Compliance Webpage § "Comprehensive Error Rate Testing - Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Services" Fact Sheet § "Information and Education Resources for Medicare Fee-For-Service Healthcare Providers" Fact Sheet Revised § "Mental Health Services" Booklet Available in Hard Copy >From the MLN: HIV Screening Brochure The "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Screening" brochure, which is designed to provide education on Medicare-covered HIV screening, is now available in downloadable format, free of charge, from the Medicare Learning Network®. To view, print, or download the brochure, please visit http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/HIV_brochure_ICN905713.pdf<http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/HIV_brochure_ICN905713.pdf>. >From the MLN: New Fast Fact Now Available on MLN Provider Compliance Webpage A new fast fact has been added to the MLN Provider Compliance webpage<http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/45_ProviderCompliance.asp>, which contains educational FFS provider materials to help you understand - and avoid - common billing errors and other improper activities identified through claim review programs. You can review quick tips on relevant provider compliance issues and corrective actions directly from this webpage - and be sure to bookmark the page and check back often as a new "fast fact" will be added each month! >From the MLN: "Comprehensive Error Rate Testing - Outpatient Rehabilitation >Therapy Services" Fact Sheet A new publication titled "Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) - Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Services" is now available from the Medicare Learning Network® at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/Outpatient_Rehabilitation_Fact_Sheet_ICN905365.pdf. This fact sheet is designed to provide education on Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Services to Medicare Fee For Service providers, and includes information on the documentation needed to support a claim submitted to Medicare for medical services. >From the MLN: "Information and Education Resources for Medicare >Fee-For-Service Healthcare Providers" Fact Sheet Revised The "Information and Education Resources for Medicare Fee-For-Service Healthcare Providers" Fact Sheet (revised May 2011) is now available for download at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/FFS_health_care_professionals_fact_sheet.pdf<http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/FFS_health_care_professionals_fact_sheet.pdf>. This fact sheet details the information and education resources that CMS has developed to help meet the Medicare business needs of FFS physicians and other healthcare professionals. >From the MLN: "Mental Health Services" Booklet Available in Hard Copy A new publication titled "Mental Health Services" is now available in print format from the Medicare Learning Network®. This booklet is designed to provide education on mental health services, including covered mental health services, mental health services that are not covered, eligible professionals, outpatient psychiatric hospital services, and inpatient psychiatric hospital services. To place your order, visit http://www.CMS.gov/MLNGenInfo<http://www.cms.gov/MLNGenInfo>, scroll to "Related Links Inside CMS," and select "MLN Product Ordering Page." An Errata Sheet, which provides corrections or changes that have been identified since implementation of the publication, is available at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/Errata_Sheet-Mental_Health_Services_ICN903195.pdf<http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/Errata_Sheet-Mental_Health_Services_ICN903195.pdf>. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (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.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
