Florida Headlines
Last Modified: 5/8/2008
Is your office enrolled with Medicare or the NPPES (National Plan and Provider Enumeration System) as an organization (even if the organization only consists of one physician)?
Part A Headlines
Last Modified: 4/29/2008
Urgent Notice. Institutional providers do not need to change their systems nor do anything new or different to submit claims to Medicare concerning the use of taxonomy codes to facilitate the NPI matching with the Medicare NPI crosswalk. [PERL 200804-16]
Last Modified: 5/14/2008
This information affects providers submitting services for physician-administered drugs on a UB-04 paper or direct data entry (DDE) claim for patients who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. [MM5950]
Part B Headlines
Last Modified: 5/14/2008
This one time notice describes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approach for assigning providers to Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) and discusses the process of moving providers to MACs. [MM5979]
Last Modified: 5/14/2008
This notification provides updates to the lists of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes that are subject to the consolidated billing (CB) provision of the SNF prospective payment system (PPS). [MM6009]
Medicare Beneficiary Information
• Beneficiaries, visit Medicare.gov
for answers to your Medicare-related questions. Or, for general Medicare information, ordering Medicare booklets, and information about health plans, contact 1-800-MEDICARE for assistance.
• Beneficiaries can now access information about nursing homes that have a history of poor performance or repeated violations of state and federal health safety rules as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A listing of offending facilities, including information about what prompted the action, can be seen at Nursing Home Compare
.


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