Transmittals

Update to Pub. 100-04, Chapter 15 to Provide Language-Only Changes for Updating ICD-10, ASC X12, and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) Implementation

Date Correction to Diagnosis Code Reporting on Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institution (RNHCI) Claims

Correction to Hospice Notice of Revocation Processing

Correction to Hospice Notice of Revocation Processing

New Physician Specialty Code for Interventional Cardiology

Update to State Operations Manual (SOM), Publication 100-07, Chapter 3, to Provide Language-Only Changes for Updating ICD-10

Manual Update to Clarify Claims Processing for Laboratory Services

Manual Update to Clarify Claims Processing for Laboratory Services

January 2015 Quarterly Average Sales Price (ASP) Medicare Part B Drug Pricing Files and Revisions to Prior Quarterly Pricing Files

January 2015 Quarterly Average Sales Price (ASP) Medicare Part B Drug Pricing Files and Revisions to Prior Quarterly Pricing Files

To add Table 26 to update the Medicare Payment Rates for routine SNF-type services by swing-bed hospitals during calendar years 2015. These rates should be used to carve out swing-bed costs on the hospital cost report.

Conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 and from ASC X12 Version 4010 to 5010

Transitioning Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Workloads to the New Banking Contractor(s)

Transitioning Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Workloads to the New Banking Contractor(s)

Updating ICD-10 language in the Provider Reimbursement Manual. There are no new policies in this transmittal. Specific policy changes have been announced previously in various communications.

To clarify and correct the existing instructions and incorporate statutory and regulatory changes.

To clarify and correct the existing instructions and incorporate statutory and regulatory changes.

To clarify and correct the existing instructions and incorporate statutory and regulatory changes.

To clarify and correct existing instructions

New Waived Tests