Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS OIT/Verizon will be conducting maintenance on the West CMSNet Gateway (states west of the Mississippi) on Friday, February 18th, starting at 5:00 p.m. (PT). The downtime will end by 9:00 p.m. (PT) on the same day. During the downtime, all provider access to CMS pulse…… Continue reading Scheduled Verizon Maintenance Downtime: West Gateway – February 18, 2022

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS issued QSO-22-12-ALL today with the same title as this blog. “States that fail to perform survey and certification functions in a manner sufficient to assure the CMS of the full certification of compliance with all Conditions of Participation, Conditions for Coverage, and Requirements for Participation…… Continue reading State Obligations to Survey to the Entirety of Medicare and Medicaid Health and Safety Requirements under the 1864 Agreement

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Please see corrected information below and disregard previous version of this message: +  **Attention Acute Care Hospitals, Cancer Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities, Long-term Acute Care Facilities (Long-term Care Hospitals) ** This email contains reporting deadline reminders for the CMS Quality Reporting Programs. The National Healthcare Safety…… Continue reading Correction – Reporting Deadline Reminder for CMS Quality Reporting Programs

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is offering Second Edition COVID-19 Public Reporting Tip Sheets to help providers understand CMS’ public reporting approach to the Home Health (HH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), and Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Programs (QRPs) to account…… Continue reading Second Edition COVID-19 Public Reporting Tip Sheets Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the March 2022 refresh of the websites. The data contained within the…… Continue reading IRF Provider Preview Reports – Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the March 2022 refresh of the websites. The data contained within the…… Continue reading LTCH Provider Preview Reports – Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare In response to the ongoing national emergency concerning COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing nine new procedure codes to describe the introduction or infusion of therapeutics, including vaccines for COVID-19 treatment, into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedure Coding…… Continue reading ICD-10 MS-DRG Grouper V39.1 & FY 2022 ICD-10 Code Files

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Early last month, I reminded employers that they must electronically submit 2021 injury and illness data from OSHA Form 300A by March 2, 2022 if they have: •  250 or more employees and are currently required to keep OSHA injury and illness records. •  20-249 employees classified in specific…… Continue reading OSHA Recordkeeping & ITA Webinar

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Date/Time: February 24, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET Host(s): Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) Provider Compliance Group (PCG) Location: Online webinar via Zoom Zoom access instructions will be emailed following registration. Registration is now open for…… Continue reading CMS to Host Virtual PCG Provider Compliance Focus Group

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The following notice was posted to the QIES website on Friday, January 28, 2022.  It applies to all five (5) PAC providers. (Bolding and italics added by me.) “CMS will be transitioning to a new data source for a provider’s demographic data for all five Post-Acute…… Continue reading Updated Provider Demographic Data Process