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The MLN Connects® Provider eNews contains important news, announcements, and updates for health care professionals. Thursday, May 21, 2015 Can't view the image? Read the eNews! View this edition as a PDF In This Edition: MLN Connects® National Provider Calls 2014 Mid-Year QRURs — Register Now Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO: Application Review — Register Now National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI — Register Now Hospice Quality and Hospice Item Set Manual V1.02 — Registration Now Open ICD-10: Preparing for Implementation and New ICD-10-PCS Section X — Register Now MLN Connects® Videos New Video on PQRS and the Value-Based Payment Modifier CMS Events Final Opportunity to Volunteer for ICD-10 End-to-End Testing in July — Forms Accepted May 11 through 22 Participate in Final ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Week: June 1 through 5 Announcements 2014 Mid-Year QRURs Available EHR Proposed Rules Available for Comment: Stage 3 Comments Due by May 29 Call for TEP Nominations: Closing Date June 1 CMS to Release Comparative Billing Report on CT Scans of the Abdomen and Pelvis in June EHR Incentive Program: Deadline for Eligible Professional Hardship Exception is July 1 PQRS: IACS Transitioning to EIDM on July 13 CMS is Accepting Suggestions for Potential PQRS Measures Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products “Chronic Care Management (CCM) Services Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)” MLN Matters® Article — Released “Power Mobility Pearls for the Practicing Physician” Web-Based Training Course — Released “Clarification of the Use of Modifiers When Billing Wrong Surgery on a Patient” Podcast — Released “Co-Surgery Not Billed with Modifier 62” Podcast — Released “Chronic Care Management Services” Fact Sheet — Reminder New Medicare Learning Network® Educational Web Guides Fast Fact Medicare Learning Network Product® Available In Electronic Publication Format Like the eNews? Have suggestions? Please let us know!