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>From the MLN: “Home Health Prospective Payment System” Fact Sheet Revised - >The “Home Health Prospective Payment >System<http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/HomeHlthProsPaymt.pdf>” > fact sheet (ICN 006816) has been revised and is now available in downloadable >format. It includes the following information: background, consolidated >billing requirements, criteria that must be met to qualify for home health >services, coverage of home health services, elements of the HH PPS, updates to >the HH PPS, and healthcare quality. >From the MLN: “Mental Health Services” Booklet Revised - The “Mental Health >Services<http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/Mental_Health_Services_ICN903195.pdf>” > booklet (ICN 903195) has been revised and is now available in downloadable >format. It includes the following information: covered mental health services, >mental health services that are not covered, eligible professionals, >outpatient psychiatric hospital services, and inpatient psychiatric hospital >services. >From the MLN: “Guidance for Correct Claims Submission When Secondary Payers >Are Involved” MLN Matters® Article Released - MLN Matters® Special Edition >Article >#SE1217<http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1217.pdf>, > “Guidance for Correct Claims Submission When Secondary Payers Are Involved” >has been released and is now available in downloadable format. This article is designed to provide education on how providers and suppliers should correctly submit claims associated with a Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP). It includes guidance and tools that providers, physicians, and other suppliers can use to ensure MSP information is captured at the time of billing, so that the appropriate primary payer is billed before Medicare, as required by law. >From the MLN: New Fast Fact on MLN Provider Compliance Webpage - A new fast >fact is now available on the MLN Provider Compliance >webpage<http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/ProviderCompliance.html>. > This webpage provides the latest Medicare Learning Network® (MLN) products >designed to help Medicare Fee-For-Service providers understand and avoid >common billing errors and other improper activities. Please bookmark this page >and check back often as a new fast fact is added each month. ________________________________ If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/downloads//MailingLists_FactSheet.pdf<http://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/downloads/MailingLists_FactSheet.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/About-CMS/Agency-Information/ContactCMS/index.html). Thank you.
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