Transmittals

October Quarterly Update to 2010 Annual Update of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes Used for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Consolidated Billing (CB) Enforcement

October 2010 Quarterly Average Sales Price (ASP) Medicare Part B Drug Pricing Files and Revisions to Prior Quarterly Pricing Files

Additional Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes Subject to Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Edits

July Update to the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Database (MPFSDB)

July 2010 Update to the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System

Guidance on Implementing Section 3109 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)

July Quarterly Update for 2010 Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) Fee Schedule

Medicare Contractor Annual Update of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)

Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA)

Mailing To All Individual Practitioners, Medical Groups and Clinics and Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTF) Who Are Billing or Have Billed For The Technical Component of Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Services

Updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) PPS Changes due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Claim Status Category and Claim Status Code Update

Changes to the Laboratory National Coverage Determination (NCD) Edit Software for October 2010

Billing and Claims Processing for Automatic Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD) Services

Revisions and Re-issuance of Audiology Policies

October Quarterly Update for 2010 Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) Fee Schedule

Update to Hospice Payment Rates, Hospice Cap, Hospice Wage Index and the Hospice Pricer for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011

Collagen Meniscus Implant

Validating the Billing of End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) 50/50 Rule Modifier

Positron Emission Tomography (NaF-18) to Identify Bone Metastasis of Cancer