Your Friday Reading Materials CMS asks that you share this important information with all of your association members and State and local chapters. Thanks! Happy Friday everyone! Not too much this afternoon but today's items include: News From the Medicare Learning Network
CMS Updates Hospital Outpatient Department Payment Information for Value-Driven Health Care
News From the Medicare Learning Network ICD-10 Fact Sheet Now Available! The ICD-10-Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System Fact Sheet, which provides general information about the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-CM/PCS) including benefits of adopting the new coding system, structural differences between ICD-9 CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS, and implementation planning recommendations, is now available in downloadable format from the Medicare Learning Network at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/ICD-10factsheet2008.pdf . The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) " The MLN Products Catalog The MLN is the brand name for official CMS national FFS health care professional education products. The MLN is designed to promote national consistency of Medicare information developed for CMS initiatives. Most importantly, it is available to help you! The MLN Products Catalog is now an interactive downloadable document that lists all MLN products by media format. The catalog has been revised to provide new customer-friendly links that are embedded within the document. All product titles and the word "download", when selected, will link you to the online version of the product. The word "hard copy", when selected, will automatically link you to the MLN Product Ordering page. The Catalog is updated quarterly and the latest version is now available for download at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MLNCatalog.pdf on the CMS website. Each quarter the MLN will send out information on the latest products available to order. Please be on the lookout for those updates! For more information on The Medicare Learning Network, please visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNGenInfo on the internet.
CMS Updates Hospital Outpatient Department Payment Information for Value-Driven Health Care
To support the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care and enable consumers to make more informed health care decisions, President Bush directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make cost and quality data available to all Americans. As part of this initiative, Medicare posted information in 2006 and 2007 about the payments it made during the previous year for common and elective procedures and services provided by Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), Hospital Outpatient Departments, and Physicians.
Earlier this year, Medicare updated the Hospital information and moved it to the Hospital Compare Website where it can be viewed along with hospital quality information. The Hospital compare website may be found at www.medicare.gov.
On October 17, 2008, Medicare posted an update to the Hospital Outpatient Department data. ASC and Physician payment data were updated earlier this year. The information is being displayed in the same format as in previous years, updated with calendar year (CY) 2007 data. The posting updates may be found at: www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareConInit/.
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