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DME MAC JA ListServe
For Immediate Release
May 05, 2016

What's New

Today the following publications have been posted to the DME MAC JA What's New page:

  • The MLN Connects ® Provider eNews for May 05, 2016 is now available
     
  • Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program (CBP): Additional Instructions for the Implementation of Round 2 Recompete of the DMEPOS CBP Program and National Mail Order (NMO) Recompete (MM9579)
     
  • JW Modifier: Drug Amount Discarded/Not Administered to any Patient (MM9603)
     
  • Updates to Pub. 100-04, Chapters 1 and 16 to Correct Remittance Advice Messages (MM9578)
     
  • The article Reclassification of Certain Durable Medical Equipment HCPCS Codes Included in Competitive Bidding Programs (CBP) from the Inexpensive and Routinely Purchased Payment Category to the Capped Rental Payment Category (MM8822) has been revised
     
  • Billing Guidance - Billing for External Infusion Pumps and Drugs When Treatment Was Initiated Somewhere Other Than the Beneficiary Home - DME MAC Joint Publication
     
  • Correct Coding and Coverage of Ventilators - Revised May 2016 - Joint DME MAC Publication
     
  • The MLN Product Featured this month is the Medicare Secondary Payer for Providers, Physicians, Other Suppliers, and Billing Staff fact sheet

For more information visit:

http://www.medicarenhic.com/dme/whatsnew.aspx 

  

 
Read Going Green - An Electronic Environment to learn more about the benefits of an electronic environment as a result of receiving Electronic Remittance Advices (ERAs) and enrolling in Electronic Funds Transfers (EFTs).Visit the CERT Connection Web page for informative CERT FAQs, newsletters, Dear Physician letters, and a helpful documentation checklist!

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