First National Version 5010 Testing Day Results Now Available The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Version 5010 Team held its first National Testing Day on June 15, 2011. On National Testing Day, 349 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) trading partners conducted testing using the Version 5010 format that all covered entities are required to use starting January 1, 2012.
>From those 349 trading partners, 974 files were submitted and there were no >significant error scenarios reported. Sixty-eight trading partners responded >to a follow-up survey about National Testing Day. Of those who responded to >the survey, 32 percent stated that they feel ready to process Version 5010 >production transactions. In addition, 39 percent of the respondents stated >that they were able to receive and process a 277CA while testing on National >Testing Day. The following metrics represent 5010 production transactions: * Part B claims processed (May and June) - 59,778 * COB Part B claims (May and June) - 4,041 * Trading Partners for Part B Claims and COB (as of June) - Part A - 43, Part B- 84, COB- 24 * Eligibility inquiries (May and June) - 305,884 inquiries CMS and the Medicare FFS Program have scheduled a National 5010 Testing Week for August 22 - 26, 2011. National 5010 Testing Week provides an opportunity for trading partners to test compliance efforts that are already underway, with the support of a real-time help desk and access to Medicare Administrative Contractors. Check the Version 5010<http://www.cms.gov/Versions5010andD0/> section of the CMS website for more information about the transition to Version 5010. Keep Up to Date on Version 5010 and ICD-10. Please visit www.cms.gov/ICD10<http://www.cms.gov/ICD10> for the latest news and resources to help you prepare! 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.
