Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) / Medicare

Links to specific Medicare sites such as coverage pages, important transmittals:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
National Coverage Decisions
Quarterly Provider Update (QPU)
Medicare Modernization Update (MMU)
CMS Manuals
CMS Transmittals
Consolidated Nursing Facility
Office of the Attorney Advisor
FOIA
Advisory Committees
SBA Ombudsman Liaison
CMS Rulings
eComments
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

Date of Service/Place of Service:
- Transmittal 1873 
- POS Transmittal

Remittance Advice Educational Guide on CD
The Medicare Learning Network is pleased to announce that Understanding the Remittance Advice: A Guide for Medicare Providers, Physicians, Suppliers, and Billers is now available on CD ROM. Copies of this CD ROM may be ordered, free of charge, through the Medicare Learning Network's (MLN) Product Ordering Page located at http://cms.meridianksi.com/kc/main/kc_frame.asp?kc_ident=kc0001&loc=5 on the CMS website. This publication may also be downloaded and viewed online here on the MLN Publications page. The web version of the "RA Guide" may be reprinted or redistributed as needed. Hard copies of the "RA Guide" will be available later this Spring.

New Provider Enrollment Applications MLN Matters Article
The new Medicare Enrollment Applications (Form 855) are now available on the CMS website. Go to http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareProviderSupEnroll/ and click on "Enrollment Applications" on the left side of the page. All providers and suppliers are encouraged to use the new forms immediately. A Special Edition MLN Matters is now available!

SE0632 - "Announcing the Release of the Revised CMS-855 Medicare Enrollment Applications"
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE0632.pdf

National Provider Identifier - http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/02_Regulations.asp

The Facilitator's Guide, which provides facilitators with everything needed to prepare for and conduct a Medicare Program training course and is a companion to the Medicare Physician Guide: A Resource for Residents, Practicing Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals, is now available in downloadable format on the MLN Publication Page located at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/MPUB/list.asp on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website.

The Medicare Physician Guide: A Resource for Residents, Practicing Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals in CD-ROM format is available free of charge from the MLN Product Ordering Page located at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/mlngeninfo/ on the CMS website.

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• Newly issued policies and regulations
• Billing/payment resources (e.g, relative value scales, fee schedule amounts)
• Manuals and transmittals
• Forms
• PQRI information
• Enrollment information
• Policies and regulations
• Educational resources”