The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be hosting its fourth national provider conference call regarding the implementation of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Version 5010. CMS will give a brief presentation, which will be followed by a Q&A session with CMS subject-matter experts. The call will be geared toward vendors, clearinghouses, and providers who are performing their own development of 5010.
The call will occur between 2– 3:30 p.m. ET on March 24 and will cover the following topics:
- General overview of 5010
- Additional changes to Medicare Fee For Service (FFS)
- Timelines and deadlines
- What you need to do to prepare
- CMS’s approach for new error handling transactions: 999 and 277CA
- Hot topics:
- Billing provider address change: post-office boxes no longer permitted
- Discussions on handling transaction errata
Registration
CMS has stated that in order for prospective attendees to receive the call-in information, they must register for the call. For those intending to sit in on a group, only one person needs to register to receive the call-in data. “This registration is solely to reserve a phone line, NOT to allow participation,” CMS stressed.
Registration will close at 2 p.m. ET on March 23, or when available space has been filled. No exceptions will be made to this rule.
- To register for the call, participants should visit www.eventsvc.com/palmettogba/032410
- Fill in all required data.
- Verify that the caller’s time zone is displayed correctly the drop down box.
- Click “Register.”
- The “Thank you for registering” page will open, and registrants will receive a confirmation e-mail shortly thereafter. CMS requests that registrants print and save this page, in the event that the confirmation e-mail is blocked or filtered. Registrants who do not receive the confirmation e-mail should check their spam/junk mail filter.
