INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10, 2013—National Government Services—the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC)—will be offering a free 90-minute Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators (TENS) webinar on Weds., Jan. 23, 2013. This webinar will be conducted from 2:00-3:30 p.m. eastern time (ET) and is geared toward all suppliers who bill the DME MAC for TENS units and supplies.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 13, 2012—National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) will conduct an External Breast Prostheses webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The webinar will take place at 10 a.m. ET and is geared toward suppliers who bill Medicare for external breast prostheses and mastectomy bras.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 6, 2012—National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) would like to remind suppliers that the CMS Internet-Only Manuals (IOMs) can be found in the CMS Online Manual System located on the CMS Web site.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 28, 2012—National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) will be conducting a Medical Records Documentation for Glucose Monitors and Supplies Webinar for all durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) suppliers on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 from 10 a.m. eastern time (ET) to noon.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 10, 2012—National Government Services will be conducting a Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) Power Mobility Devices Prior Authorization Requests (PMD PARs) webinar on Wednesday, October 31, 2012. The Jurisdiction B DME MAC PMD PARs webinar will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. eastern time (ET) and is geared toward all suppliers and physicians who are submitting PMD PARs.
HALIFAX, Va., Aug. 15, 2012—According to the National Association of Independent Medical Equipment Suppliers (NAIMES), National Government Services—the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC)—would like to remind durable medical equipment prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) suppliers that in order to obtain and retain billing privileges they must follow all 30 supplier standards.
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC), recently made some exciting enhancements to the to the Clinical Education page of its website. The Clinical Education page will now be known as the Policy Education page. This page provides suppliers with additional information related to medical policies.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 11, 2012—National Government Services Inc. announced that it has been selected by TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC as a subcontractor for a contract under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Center for Program Integrity. The Center for Program Integrity is implementing a National Fraud Prevention Program (NFPP) focused on prevention and detection that is integrated, risk-based, and measurable.
National Government Services ended the DME Swipe Card Pilot Project on April 30, and providers should no longer use the cards. The pilot captured data using credit card terminals when DMEPOS—durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies—items were ordered by Part B physicians and filled by DME suppliers in the Indianapolis area.
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor, will no longer mail suppliers a redetermination acknowledgement letter, effective April 26. Suppliers who submit redetermination and reopening requests to National Government Services must use self-service tools to obtain the status of their requests.
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC) Medical Review Department has completed a widespread prepayment Targeted Medical Review (TMR) of 314 random claims for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, HCPCS code E0601KH. Only 61 claims were allowed as billed and 197 were denied—an error rate of 81 percent.
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B DME MAC, reports an increase in claims, overpayment requests, appeals requests, correspondence and other documents that are being submitted stapled together. “This is not an acceptable form of submission,” the DME MAC said in a release last week. “Submitting multiple pages stapled together will severely slows down the process of scanning the mail. Documents submitted with staples must be manually removed prior to scanning.
A webinar addressing the basics of the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) has been scheduled by National Government Services from 1:30-3 p.m. ET, March 15. It will provide a basic overview of regulations for delivering, completing and retaining the ABN form. It is open to all Medicare providers of Part A, Part B and DMEPOS suppliers. Registration is available online.
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B durable medical equipment Medicare administrative contractor (DME MAC), has scheduled a webinar for Medicare suppliers who bill oxygen and oxygen equipment at 10 a.m. (ET) Wednesday, Feb. 15. Topics of discussion include:
National Government Services, the Jurisdiction B Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractor (DME MAC), has scheduled an Ask-the-Contractor Teleconference, with an open question-and-answer session on Tuesday, Feb. 14 from 1-2 p.m. ET. Jurisdiction B suppliers of DMEPOS can register online.