Regulatory Information Center Updates: Oct 3, 2024


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OIG HHS/Reports Document #

Medicare Advantage Compliance Audit of Diagnosis Codes That EmblemHealth (Contract H3330) Submitted to CMS

A-06-18-02001

Gallup Indian Medical Center—an IHS-Operated Health Facility—Did Not Timely Conduct Required Background Checks of Staff and Supervise Certain Staff A-02-23-02006
ASPR Established Adequate Controls for Maintaining Physical Security Over Stockpile Site A, but Some Inventory Discrepancies Were Identified A-04-24-02044
States Could Better Leverage Coverage and Access Requirements To Promote Maternal Health Care Access in Medicaid Managed Care OEI-05-22-00330
Federal Register/Notice Document #
Medicare Program; Medicare Appeals; Adjustment to the Amount in Controversy Threshold Amounts for Calendar Year 2025 2024-22142
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request 2024-22345
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request 2024-22355
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request 2024-22536
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request 2024-22547
Federal Register/Rule Document #

Medicare Program: Mitigating the Impact of Significant, Anomalous, and Highly Suspect Billing Activity on Medicare Shared Savings Program Financial Calculations in Calendar Year 2023

2024-22054

Medicare Program; Changes to the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program for Contract Year 2024-Remaining Provisions and Contract Year 2025 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE); Correcting Amendment 2024-22203
Medicare Program; FY 2025 Hospice Wage Index and Payment Rate Update, Hospice Conditions of Participation Updates, and Hospice Quality Reporting Program Requirements; Correction 2024-22495
Medicare Program; FY 2025 Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System-Rate Update; Correction 2024-22496
Medicare Program; Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2025 and Updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program; Correction 2024-22497
Medicare and Medicaid Programs and the Children's Health Insurance Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2025 Rates; Quality Programs Requirements; and Other Policy Changes; Correction 2024-22501
Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2025; Correction 2024-22504
Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities; Updates to the Quality Reporting Program and Value-Based Purchasing Program for Federal Fiscal Year 2025; Correction 2024-22765
Transmittal Document #

Instructions for Downloading the Medicare ZIP Code File for January 2025

R12856CP

Fifteenth General Update to Provider Enrollment Instructions in Chapter 10 of CMS Publication (Pub.) 100-08 R12852PI
Disable Beneficiary Eligibility Information from Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems R12858OTN
Technical Revision Only to the Medicare Benefit Policy (MBP) Manual, Publication (Pub) 100-02, Chapter 15, section 50.4.2 R12858OTN
The Fiscal Intermediary Shared System (FISS) Submission of Copybook Files to the Provider and Statistical Reimbursement (PS&R) System R12861FM
CMS/Claim processing manuals Document #

Chapter 12 - Physicians/Nonphysician Practitioners

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