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ListServ Message 01/18/2008

January 14, 2008

Important Information from The CMS.

On Saturday, January 19, 2008, the CWF Great Lakes and Pacific Hosts will be conducting a history purge. Due to the anticipated duration of this activity and to ensure the completion of weekly processing and scheduled data center maintenance, there will be a CWF dark day on that Saturday. This will mean there will be no access to the Medicare Beneficiary eligibility files which are usually available until noon on Saturdays.

All files received from satellites for Friday’s cycle will be completed prior to bringing CWF production down. If for any reason satellite files are received late Saturday morning, they will be processed by CWF after the history purge has been completed.

Important Information from The CMS.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued CR 5850, Updated National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) Codes and Other Internet Only Manual (IOM) Chapter 25 Revisions, on December 14, 2007, with an implementation date of January 7, 2008. The software delivery date has been revised and will be sent to the Data Centers on January 24, 2008.

As a result of the delayed delivery of the coding, this CR will be implemented into production on February 11, 2008.

The latest issue (Oct Dec 2007) of the Medical Review Quarterly has been posted to the Riverbend GBA Website at:

http://www.rgbagov.com/Publications/Medical-Review-quarterly/2008/Medical_Review_QuarterlyVol16No1.pdf for your review.

January 15, 2008

Important Information from The CMS

The NPI is here. The NPI is now. Are you using it?

Important Information for Medicare Providers

Urgent: Test Your Medicare Claims Now!
After Medicare providers have submitted claims containing both NPIs and legacy identifiers and those claims have been paid, Medicare urges these providers to send a small batch of claims now with only the NPI in the primary provider fields. If the results are positive, begin increasing the number of claims in the batch.

(Reminder: For institutional claims, the primary provider fields are the Billing and Pay-to Provider fields. For professional claims, the primary provider fields are the Billing, Pay-to, and Rendering Provider fields. If the Pay-to Provider is the same as the Billing Provider, the Pay-to Provider does not need to be identified.)
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Save the Date National NPI Roundtable Scheduled for 2/6/2008

CMS will host a national NPI Roundtable on Wednesday, February 6^th from 2:30 4PM ET. This call will focus on the status of the Medicare implementation and a related question and answer session. Registration details coming soon!

Need More Information?

Not sure what an NPI is and how you can get it, share it and use it? As always, more information and education on the NPI can be found through the CMS NPI page www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand on the CMS website. Providers can apply for an NPI online at https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov or can call the NPI enumerator to request a paper application at 1-800-465-3203. Having trouble viewing any of the URLs in this message? If so, try to cut and paste any URL in this message into your web browser to view the intended information.

Note: All current and past CMS NPI communications are available by clicking CMS Communications in the left column of the www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand CMS webpage.

Getting an NPI is free not having one can be costly.

January 16, 2008

Updated information from The CMS.

Subscriber’s Note: Please be sure to note that potential users should only register once in IACS.

New:

SE0753 Individuals Authorized Access to CMS Computer Services - Provider Community (IACS-PC): THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THE IACS
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0753.pdf

Information from The CMS.

On Saturday, January 26, 2008, the CWF Great Western Host will be conducting a history purge. Due to the anticipated duration of this activity and to ensure the completion of weekly processing and scheduled data center maintenance, there will be a CWF dark day on that Saturday.

All files received from satellites for Friday’s cycle will be completed prior to bringing CWF production down. If for any reason satellite files are received late Saturday morning, they will be processed by CWF after the history purge has been completed.