Now Available! Special Edition MLN Matters Article # SE1011 - Edits on the Ordering/Referring Providers in Medicare Part B Claims (Change Requests 6417, 6421, and 6696)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a Special Edition MLN Matters article that provides guidance on the edits required to be identified in Part B claims from Medicare providers or suppliers who furnish items or services as a result of orders or referrals. Medicare providers and suppliers who order or refer items or services for Medicare beneficiaries must submit an enrollment application to Medicare by using Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), or by completing the paper enrollment application (CMS-855I). The article, SE1011, "Edits on the Ordering/Referring Providers in Medicare Part B Claims (Change Requests 6417, 6421, and 6696)," is available at http://www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1011.pdf on the CMS website. # # # # # The revised Ambulance Fee Schedule Fact Sheet (January 2010), which provides general information about the Ambulance Fee Schedule including how payment rates are set for ground and air ambulance services, is now available in print format from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare Learning Network. To place your order, visit http://www.cms.gov/MLNGenInfo/ , scroll down to "Related Links Inside CMS" and select "MLN Product Ordering Page." ________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm <https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm> ) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives <https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives> ) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf) . Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS <http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS> ). Thank you.
