Make Quality Your Priority - Learn How May 12

The MLN Connects® Provider eNews contains important news, announcements, and updates for health care professionals. Thursday, April 30, 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 — Register Now 2014 Mid-Year QRURs – Save the Date New MLN Connects® National Provider Call Video Slideshow, Audio Recordings and Transcripts CMS Events Participate in Final ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Week: June 1 through 5 Special Open Door Forum: Home Health Patient Survey Star Ratings Announcements Proposed FY 2016 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Payment and Policy Changes Proposed FY 2016 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Payment and Policy Changes Focusing on Women’s Health Open Payments Physician and Teaching Hospital Review and Dispute Period Ends May 20 Notices of Intent to Apply for Medicare Shared Savings Program January 1, 2016, Start Date Due by May 29 2015 PV-PQRS GPRO Registration is Open Participation Continues to Rise in Medicare PQRS and eRx Incentive Program Antipsychotic Drug use in Nursing Homes: Trend Update Five Facts about ICD-10 2014 Mid-Year QRURs Available Claims, Pricers, and Codes April 2015 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Pricer File Update Coding for ICD-10-CM: Continue to Report CPT/HCPCS Modifiers for Laterality Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products “Physicians and Non-Physician Practitioners Reported on Part A Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Claims” MLN Matters® Article — Released “Accreditation for Ventilators” MLN Matters® Article — Released “The Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program Repairs and Replacements” Fact Sheet — Revised New Medicare Learning Network® Provider Compliance Fast Fact Subscribe to the Medicare Learning Network® Educational Products and MLN Matters® Electronic Mailing Lists Like the eNews? Have suggestions? Please let us know!