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Downloadable NPI Search Introduced
We don’t often toot horns, but if these guys don’t, we just *HAVE* to do it for them.
Have you been wishing that you could just download the NPI Database for your area and update it whenever you wanted or needed?
Check this out - Healthcare IT Transition Group introduces that very solution here: http://www.npidentify.com/ and it’s FREE.
Just in time for the holidays; gift-wrapping not included.
Make sure to tell ‘em "THANKS!!"
CMS: PA & Advanced Practice Nursing Page!
News from the Medicare Learning Network
Advanced Practice Nursing & Physician Assistants Web Page
The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) is pleased to announce the availability of the Advanced Practice Nursing & Physician Assistants (APN/PA) web page. This dedicated web page is for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) advanced practice nurses and physician assistants who provide services to Medicare beneficiaries.
From this web page, you will be able to access and peruse the Medicare FFS program topics in order to keep abreast of policy and operational updates specific to Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants.
One of the educational resources featured on this webpage is the "Advanced Practice Nurse/Physician Assistant Web-Based Training Program" – this interactive web-based training program provides definitions of the Advanced Practice Nursing/Physician Assistant provider types; outlines the qualifications of the Advanced Practice Nursing/Physician Assistant provider types; describes collaboration/supervision requirements for Advanced Practice Nursing/Physician Assistant Medicare reimbursements; lists the Medicare billing requirements for Advanced Practice Nursing and Physician Assistants; and identifies links to Medicare manuals and other resources.
This web page is updated on a regular basis, so check it often for timely and reliable information from MLN.
For more information, visit the web page at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/70_APNPA.asp#TopOfPage on the CMS website.
CMS updates Initial Preventive PE Benefit
MLN Matters Article MM6223, Update to the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE) Benefit
?? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released an MLN Matters article that is based on Change Request (CR) 6223, which announces expanded coverage of the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE) also known as the “Welcome to Medicare Visit” or “Welcome to Medicare Physical Exam”. This expanded coverage applies to IPPEs performed on or after January 1, 2009. The article, MM6223 Update to the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE) Benefit, is available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/MM6223.pdf on the CMS website.
