CMS Decodes ICD-10's New Section X

The MLN Connects® Provider eNews contains important news, announcements, and updates for health care professionals. Thursday, May 7, 2015 Can't view the image? Read the eNews! View this edition as a PDF In This Edition: MLN Connects® National Provider Calls Medicare Acute Care Quality and Reporting Programs for Hospitals — Last Chance to Register 2014 Mid-Year QRURs — Registration Now Open National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI — Registration Now Open ICD-10: Preparing for Implementation and New ICD-10-PCS Section X — Registration Now Open New MLN Connects® National Provider Call Audio Recording and Transcript 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 Webinar for Comparative Billing Report on Transthoracic Echocardiography Announcements Proposed Updates to Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rates May is National Osteoporosis Month Medicare Coverage for Viral Hepatitis New CDC Measles Information and Resources HHS Announces $101 Million in Affordable Care Act Funding to 164 New Community Health Centers Amendment to Disproportionate Share Hospital Ruling Inpatient Hospital Probe and Educate Extension Quality Reporting Programs: Updated 2014 eCQMs for 2016 Reporting CMS Announces the Physician Quality Reporting Programs Strategic Vision ICD-10 Resources for Medicare Providers Five More Facts about ICD-10 Medscape Article for CME Credit: Improving Quality of Care through Care Coordination EHR Proposed Rules Available for Comment: Stage 3 Comments Due by May 29 FY 2016 Inpatient and LTCH PPS Proposed Rule: Comment Period Ends June 16 CMS is Accepting Suggestions for Potential PQRS Measures Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products “The Medicare Home Health Benefit” Web-Based Training Course — Released “Resources for Medicare Beneficiaries” Fact Sheet — Revised “Medicare Part B Immunization Billing” Educational Tool — Reminder Medicare Learning Network® Products Available In Electronic Publication Format Like the eNews? Have suggestions? Please let us know!