Reporting Deadlines Spring Forward for EHR and PQRS

The MLN Connects® Provider eNews contains important news, announcements, and updates for health care professionals. Thursday, March 5, 2015                                                        Can't view the image? Read the eNews! View this edition as a PDF In This Edition: MLN Connects® National Provider Calls National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes and QAPI — Last Chance to Register Physician Quality Reporting Programs: Reporting Once in 2015 — Register Now New MLN Connects® National Provider Call Audio Recording and Transcript Providers and Suppliers — Browse the MLN Connects® Call Program Collection of Resources CMS Events Special Open Door Forum: Home Health Electronic Clinical Template and Home Health Paper Clinical Template Announcements Help Your Medicare Patients “Bite into a Healthy Lifestyle” During National Nutrition Month® and Beyond Physician Groups that Demonstrate High Quality Care Receive Increases to Their Medicare Payments CMS Announces Release of 2015 Impact Assessment of Quality Measures Report Register for the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network New EHR Attestation Deadline for Medicare Eligible Professionals: March 20 Submission Extension for EPs Participating in PQRS via EHR and QCDR: March 20 Hospital VBP FY 2017 Baseline Measures Report Now Available HHAs: Get Started with HHCAHPS Participation Request for Comments on ESRD Conditions for Coverage Physicians and Teaching Hospitals: Register in Open Payments System PQRS Payment Adjustments and Providers Who Rendered Services at IDTFs CMS is Accepting Suggestions for Potential PQRS Measures Claims, Pricers, and Codes Special CBSA Codes for Home Health Claims FQHC Prospective Payment System File Update Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products “Physician Feedback, Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) and Value-Based Modifier Program – Overview & Implementation” MLN Matters® Article — Released “Diagnosis Coding: Using the ICD-10-CM” Web-Based Training Course — Released “Medicare Physician Fee Schedule” Fact Sheet — Revised “Medicare Enrollment Guidelines for Ordering/Referring Providers” Fact Sheet — Reminder “Medicare Fraud & Abuse: Prevention, Detection, and Reporting” Fact Sheet — Reminder New Medicare Learning Network® Provider Compliance Fast Fact Medicare Learning Network® Product Available In Electronic Publication Format  Like the eNews? Have suggestions? Please let us know!