Updates from the Medicare Learning Network(r) (MLN)
* "Medicaid Hospital EHR Incentive Payments Calculations" Fact Sheet Now Available in Spanish * "EHR Incentive Program for Critical Access Hospitals" Fact Sheet Now Available in Spanish * "Improving Quality of Care for Medicare Patients: Accountable Care Organizations" Fact Sheet Now Available * "Form CMS-1500 At A Glance" Fact Sheet Revised * New Fast Fact Now Available on MLN Provider Compliance Webpage -------------------------------------------- >From the MLN: "Medicaid Hospital EHR Incentive Payments Calculations" Fact >Sheet Now Available in Spanish The Spanish translation of the "Medicaid Hospital Incentive Payments Calculations" fact sheet is now available (ICN 906387). This fact sheet is designed to provide education on how EHR Incentive Payments are calculated for Medicaid hospitals, and can be accessed from the Medicare Learning Network(r) at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/EHR-Medicaid-Hospital-Incentive-Payment-ICN906387-Sp.pdf. >From the MLN: "EHR Incentive Program for Critical Access Hospitals" Fact >Sheet Now Available in Spanish The Spanish translation of the "EHR Incentive Program for Critical Access Hospitals" fact sheet is now available (ICN 906384). This fact sheet is designed to provide education on the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for Critical Access Hospitals, and can be accessed from the Medicare Learning Network(r) at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/EHR-CAHs_ICN906384-Sp.pdf. >From the MLN: "Improving Quality of Care for Medicare Patients: Accountable >Care Organizations" Fact Sheet Now Available The "Improving Quality of Care for Medicare Patients: Accountable Care Organizations" fact sheet, which is designed to provide education on quality of care standards for Accountable Care Organizations under the Medicare Shared Savings Program as proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, is now available in downloadable format from the Medicare Learning Network(r). It includes information on proposed quality measures and proposed quality performance scoring under the 5 proposed domains (ie. patient/caregiver experience, care coordination, patient safety, preventive health, and at risk population/frail elderly), and is available for viewing, printing, or downloading from http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/ACO_Quality_Factsheet_ICN906104.pdf. >From the MLN: "Form CMS-1500 At A Glance" Fact Sheet Revised The revised publication titled "Form CMS-1500 At A Glance" (revised February 2011) is now available from the Medicare Learning Network(r) at http://www.CMS.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/form_cms-1500_fact_sheet.pdf. This fact sheet is designed to provide education on the CMS Form 1500, which is the standard paper claim form used by healthcare professionals to bill for Medicare Part B services, and includes background information and a descriptive crosswalk of fields in the paper versus the electronic form. >From the MLN: New Fast Fact Now Available on MLN Provider Compliance Webpage A new fast fact has been added to the MLN Provider Compliance<http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/45_ProviderCompliance.asp> webpage, which contains educational FFS provider materials to help you understand - and avoid - common billing errors and other improper activities identified through claim review programs. You can review quick tips on relevant provider compliance issues and corrective actions directly from this webpage - and be sure to bookmark this page and check back often as a new "fast fact" will be added each month! Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. 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.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
