Transmittals

Qualifications for Speech-Language Pathologists Furnishing Outpatient Speech-Language Pathology Services.

Update - Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Participation in and Payment Under the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) for Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes 99453 and 99454.

Payment for Part B Preventive Vaccines and Their Administration on the Claim for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).

" This transmittal updates Chapter 48, Home Office Cost Statement, Form CMS-287-22, to clarify instructions effective for cost reporting periods ending on or after November 1, 2024."

This transmittal updates Chapter 43, Hospice Cost Report (Form CMS-1984-14), to revise and modify the forms and instructions as follows:

"This transmittal updates Chapter 42, Independent Renal Dialysis Facility Cost Report, Form CMS-265-11, by revising the existing instructions and electronic cost report (ECR) specifications to include updates from the CY2025 ESRD final rule that expanded

Enhancement Change Request (UECR): ViPS Medicare System (VMS) - Copy Over Existing SuperOp Sequences (Active/Inactive/Archived)

User Enhancement Change Request (UECR): ViPS Medicare System (VMS) - Create Error Message in the Beneficiary Information Tracking System (BITS) to Limit the Prior Authorization (PA) Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)

Updates to several sections in Chapter 1 of the State Payment of Medicare Premiums Manual.

Notice of New Interest Rate for Medicare Overpayments and Underpayments - 2nd Quarter Notification for FY 2025

The Recovery and Adjustment of Medicare Claims where the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) also Made Payment Using the Medicare Duplicate Payment (DP) Process

Calendar Year (CY) 2025 Home Infusion Therapy (HIT) Payment Rates and Instructions for Retrieving the January 2025 Home Infusion Therapy (HIT) Services Payment Rates Through the CMS Mainframe Telecommunications System.

April 2025 Quarterly Update to Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes Used for Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Consolidated Billing (CB) Enforcement

Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule – Medicare Travel Allowance Fees for Collection of Specimens and New Updates for 2025

Fiscal Intermediary Shared System (FISS) Changes to Automate the Application of Condition Code ZC for Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell and Other Immunotherapy Cases Involving a Clinical Trial of a Different Product

Editing for Duplicate Processing for Practitioner Professional Services and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Professional Services

January 2025 Update of the Ambulatory Surgical Center [ASC] Payment System

Extensions of Certain Temporary Changes to the Low-Volume Hospital Payment Adjustment and the Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH) Program under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) provided by the American Relief Act, 2025

Extensions of Certain Temporary Changes to the Low-Volume Hospital Payment Adjustment and the Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH) Program under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) provided by the American Relief Act, 2025

January 2025 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor (I/OCE) Specifications Version 26.0