IMPACT Act: Upcoming Calls and More

The MLN Connects® Provider eNews contains important news, announcements, and updates for health care professionals. Thursday, January 28, 2016 Can't view the image? Read the eNews! View this edition as a PDF In This Edition: MLN Connects® Events IMPACT Act: Connecting Post-Acute Care across the Care Continuum Call — Last Chance to Register Other CMS Events Special Open Door Forum: Understanding the IMPACT Act LTCH Quality Reporting Program Webinar Physician Compare Public Reporting Information Sessions Medicare Learning Network® Publications and Multimedia CMS Provider Minute: Duplicate Professional Claims Video — New Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notices Booklet — Revised Skilled Nursing Facility Billing Reference Fact Sheet — Revised Suite of Products & Resources for Billers & Coders Educational Tool — Revised Suite of Products & Resources for Compliance Officers Educational Tool — Revised Suite of Products & Resources for Educators & Students Educational Tool — Revised Suite of Products & Resources for Inpatient Hospitals Educational Tool — Revised Updated MLN Matters® Search Indices New Educational Web Guides Fast Fact Announcements CMS Releases Guide to Preventing Readmissions among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries PQRS: Submission Timeframes for 2015 Data Comment Period for IMPACT Act Measures Extended to January 29 PQRS: Self-Nomination for 2016 Qualified Registries and QCDRs Open through January 31 CMS to Release a Comparative Billing Report on Modifier 25: Internal Medicine in February CMS Seeks Public Comments on Draft Quality Measure Development Plan by March 1 Prior Authorization for Certain DMEPOS Items: FAQs on the Final Rule PEPPERs Available for SNFs, HHAs, Hospices, CAHs, LTCHs, IPFs, IRFs and PHPs Payment for Group 3 Power Wheelchair Cushions and Accessories Changes to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program Hardship Exception Process Testing QRDA l Release 2 and QRDA III Release 1 Files Claims, Pricers, and Codes New Drug Testing Laboratory Codes Editing Incorrectly Like the eNews? Have suggestions? Please let us know! The Medicare Learning Network®, MLN Connects®, and MLN Matters® are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).