Updates
- Test Your "Enrollment Knowledge" Quiz. A new quiz has been published as an educational tool.
- On February 22, 2013, CMS made a contract award for the Jurisdiction K A/B MAC to National Government Services, Inc. The Jurisdiction K A/B MAC will administer Medicare Part A and Part B claims for covered services in the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Please visit the J14 Transition Information page for important updates.
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The Educational Teleconference section below is now enhanced to include links to the summaries for each program. The link will take you to our NHIC, Corp. web site.
Upcoming J14 MAC Part B Educational Teleconferences
Note: Teleconferences listed are scheduled for 1:00 PM-2:00 PM (ET)
Educational Teleconference Reminders
To provide the best customer service possible, we ask that you complete an assessment for the teleconference you attended. Your evaluation will be used in conjunction with other evaluations to determine in what areas our representatives are most helpful and where they need to strengthen their skills to better satisfy our customers' needs. Please indicate to what degree your expectations were met. Please evaluate each teleconference you attended. Thank you very much.
J14 Part B Assessment Form
Registration is required for all teleconferences. Please visit the J14 MAC Part B Educational Programs webpage for further information. If you are registering for a group, and using only 1 telephone line, then only 1 registration is necessary.
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What's New from CMS
- MM8381 - Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- MM8391 - Updating Change Request (CR) 7910
- Open Payments - (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) Training Modules for Providers
On February 8, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule that is intended to increase public awareness of financial relationships between manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals and medical supplies, as well as between applicable Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), and physicians and teaching hospitals. Known as "Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act)," this is one of many steps in the Affordable Care Act designed to create greater transparency in the health care market.
Applicable manufacturers of covered drugs, devices, biologicals, and medical supplies must report payments or other transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals to CMS. Applicable manufacturers and applicable GPOs must also report certain ownership or investment interests held by physicians or immediate family members. Applicable GPOs must report to CMS payments or other transfers of value made to physician owners or investors if they held ownership or an investment interest at any point during the reporting year.
CMS will collect the data annually, aggregate it, and publish on a public Web site. Applicable manufacturers and applicable GPOs must begin to collect the required data on August 1, 2013, and report the data collected through December 31, 2013 to CMS by March 31, 2014.
Two Continuing Medical Education Activities are Available
The first module, "Are You Ready for the National Physician Payment Transparency Program?" describes the provisions of Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act) and its implementation in 2013 - 2014. Through this activity, participants will learn more about Open Payments, the steps involved in collecting and reporting physician data, key dates for implementation, and actions physicians can take to verify their information in advance of Web site publication. This module can be found at http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/780900?src=cmsaca.
Dr. Peter Budetti, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Program Integrity and Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Medical Director of the Center for Program Integrity and Director of the Data Sharing and Partnership Group are featured in this module.
The goal of the second module, "The Physician Payment Transparency Program and Your Practice" describes the process of collecting, verifying, and publicly reporting transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals under Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). Through this activity, participants will be able to identify opportunities for physicians to review transfers of value attributed to them and differentiate types of transfers of value that will or will not be reported under Open Payments. This module can be found at http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/807771.
Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Medical Director of the Center for Program Integrity and Director of the Data Sharing and Partnership Group, and Anita Griner, Deputy Director of the Data Sharing and Partnership Group, are featured in this module.
Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, physicians or health care professionals can earn one (1) credit of continuing medical education for the first module and 0.25 credits for the second module. Medscape accounts are free and users do not have to be health care professionals to register. Registration can be found on the Medscape Web site www.medscape.com.
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Additional CMS Message(s)
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