Protect Your Patients from Influenza

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) Thursday, February 13, 2020 News DMEPOS Items Subject to Prior Authorization Influenza Activity Continues: Are Your Patients Protected? Compliance Proper Coding for Specimen Validity Testing Billed in Combination with Urine Drug Testing Events Substance Use Disorders: Availability of Benefits Listening Session — February 18 Ground Ambulance Organizations: Reporting Volunteer Labor Call — February 20 Dementia Care: CMS Toolkits Call — March 3 Hospice Item Set Data Submission Requirements Webinar — March 3 Part A Providers: QIC Appeals Demonstration Call — March 5 Ground Ambulance Organizations: Data Collection for Public Safety-Based Organizations Call — March 12 MLN Matters® Articles Update to the Home Health Grouper for New Diagnosis Code for Vaping Related Disorder Updates to Ensure the Original 1-Day and 3-Day Payment Window Edits are Consistent with Current Policy Update to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for Vaping Related Disorder — Revised January 2020 Update of the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) — Revised Publications Diabetes Management Resources Caring for Medicare Patients is a Partnership — Revised Multimedia MAC Listening Session: Audio Recording and Transcript View the full edition as a: PDF | Webpage Like our newsletter? 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). Please share this important information with your colleagues and encourage them to subscribe. Previous issues are available in the archive. You're getting this message because you subscribed to get email updates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This email was sent to stevenmagallanes520.nims@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud 7500 Security Boulevard · Baltimore MD 21244