Transmittals

User Enhancement Change Request (UECR) - Enhance the MCS Desktop Tool (MCSDT) Table Manager and Customer Service Representative (CSR) Security Table

User Enhancement Change Request (UECR) - Enhance the Multi-Carrier System Desktop Tool (MCSDT) to Export Tables

User Enhancement Change Request (UECR): ViPS Medicare System (VMS) - Increase the Number of Accumulation File Numbers (AFNs) That Can Be Assigned to a Procedure Code

Extension of Payment Period for Pennsylvania Rural Health Model

Primary Care First (PCF) Model: Updated Appendix B - Prohibited Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Codes

Create APIs to Support ACO REACH Model - Full Agile Pilot

This transmittal updates Chapter 47, Home Health Agency Cost Report, Form CMS-1728-20, by clarifying the existing instructions, forms, and electronic cost report (ECR) specifications. Revisions

Outlier Reconciliation and Cost-to-Charge Ratio (CCR) Updates for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS

Revisions to Manual for the State Payment of Medicare Premiums

Stay of Enrollment

Technical Revision Only to the National Coverage Determination (NCD) Manual, Publication (Pub) 100-03, Chapter 1, Part 4, section 310.1

Manual Updates for Clarification on Services Under the Medicare Hospice Benefit for Dually Eligible Veterans

Fiscal Intermediary Shared System (FISS) - Delete Obsolete Reason Codes - Part 2

Revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM) Appendix A-Hospitals

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model Implementation

Changes to The Electronic Correspondence Referral System (ECRS) Web Includes Updates to Submitting Duplicate and Overlapping Drug Records; Addition of Action Code (DR) to Investigate Deleted Drug Records and Updates to the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Coordination of Benefits Voluntary Agreement (COBVA) Email Addresses

Making Care Primary (MCP) Model Implementation

Manual Update to Section 20.7 in Chapter 23 of Publication (Pub) 100-04

Report of Hospice Election for Part D (Response File)

New Physician Specialty Code for Epileptologists