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MLN Connects Newsletter: Dec 22, 2022

Editor's Note:

Happy holidays from the MLN Connects team. We’ll release the next regular edition on Thursday, January 5, 2023.

News

• HHS Proposes to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature Processes to Improve the Care Experience for Patients and Providers
• Long-Term Care Hospital Provider Preview Reports: Review by January 17
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Provider Preview Reports: Review by January 17
• Hospital Ownership Data Release
• Clotting Factor: CY 2023 Furnishing Fee
• Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: CY 2023 Payment Rates
• CMS Burden Reduction News & Insights

Claims, Pricers, & Codes

• Medicare Part B Drug Pricing Files & Revisions: January Update
• Integrated Outpatient Code Editor: Version 24.0
• DMEPOS: Revised 2023 Fee Schedule Public Use File
• National Correct Coding Initiative: Annual Policy Manual Update & Information on Other Payers

MLN Matters® Articles

• Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: CY 2023 Annual Update
• Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System: January 2023 Update
• Laboratory Edit Software Changes: April 2023
• New Medicare Part B Immunosuppressant Drug Benefit
• Extension of Changes to the Low-Volume Hospital Payment Adjustment and the Medicare Dependent Hospital Program - Revised

Publications

• Medicare Part B Inflation Rebate Guidance: Use of the 340B Modifier
• Rural Emergency Hospitals
• Intravenous Immune Globulin Demonstration - Revised
• Medicare Preventive Services - Revised

From Our Federal Partners

• CDC Interim Guidance: Antiviral Treatment of Influenza
• Important Updates from the CDC on COVID-19 Therapeutics for Treatment & Prevention