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Updates from the Medicare Learning Network Need to know the Medicare basics? The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) offers a series of web based training (WBT) courses to teach health care professionals the fundamentals of the Medicare Program. The first in the series, the "World of Medicare", offers a basic introduction to Medicare. The second in the series "Your Office in the World of Medicare" focuses on Medicare knowledge required by health care professionals and their office personnel. Both activities now offer continuing education (noted by ) and are available from the MLN at http://www.cms.gov/MLNproducts/ by scrolling to the bottom of the page and selecting Web based Training Modules from the Related Links Inside CMS section of the CMS website. # # # # # Get your NEWHow to Use the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Tools booklet from the MLN and learn how to navigate the CMS NCCI website. This new MLN product explains how to look up Medicare code pair edits and Medically Unlikely Edits (MUEs). NCCI tools can help providers avoid coding and billing errors and subsequent payment denials. If you want to become familiar with the "National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual for Medicare Services" and the tools on the NCCI website, this is your best resource! Go to http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/MPUB/list.asp and enter 'How to' to find this and other MLN 'How to' series publications. # # # # # The Spanish Language version of "We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918", a documentary that explores the experiences of Americans during the influenza pandemic of 1918, is now available to order, free of charge, on DVD. The documentary features stories from survivors of the influenza pandemic that swept the United States in 1918. These stories serve to frame the key questions that apply to the current H1N1 pandemic. Award-winning actress S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order) narrates the documentary that includes information about seasonal vs. pandemic influenza, symptoms, immunizations, treatment, and research. To order a copy of the DVD in either English or Spanish, please visit our product ordering website by first visiting our Medicare Learning Network page at: http://www.cms.gov/MLNGenInfo/01_Overview.asp, then click on "MLN Product Ordering Page" in the "Related Links Inside CMS" section. # # # # # Attention Health Care Providers: Misdirected Mailings from Medicare As a health care provider subject to the privacy and security requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 996 (HIPAA) and/or under State law, you must safeguard patients' personally identifiable health information. If you receive a remittance advice on a Medicare beneficiary who's not your patient, you should 1) destroy it and 2) report it to your fiscal intermediary, carrier, or Medicare Administrative Contractor, as appropriate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf) . If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you. |