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Sign Up For AAA Lobby Days and RTF Meeting

Next Ambulance Open Door Forum
National Provider Identifier Implementation
Forwarded from CMS

Sign Up For AAA Lobby Days and RTF Meeting

On February 7 to 9, the AAA will be holding Lobby Days and a Reimbursement Task Force Meeting in Washington , DC . The Lobby Days will provide you with an opportunity to meet with your Members of Congress and their staff on important policy issues including Medicare reimbursement. We have advocacy guru Christopher Kush providing attendees with an interactive advocacy training session to help prepare you for your meetings. There will also be an AAA Federal Reimbursement Task Force meeting on February 7. So don't miss this opportunity to meet with your Members of Congress and have a direct voice in the formation of AAA reimbursement policy.

Brochure with registration form is attached to this E-Update. The brochure contains a full schedule of events and information on the program. So complete and return the registration form by Friday, February 3 and start scheduling your meetings!

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Next Ambulance Open Door Forum

As reported in an AAA Member Advisory of January 20, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) has announced that the next Ambulance Open Door Forum will be held on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. (eastern). To participate on the Forum, dial 1-800-837-1935 and provide the operator with the conference ID number of 3102165 and your name, organization name and the state from which you are calling. Below are more details on the Forum.

CMS Ambulance Open Door Forum

Date: Thursday, February 2, 2006
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (eastern)
Conference Call Number: 1-800-837-1935
Conference ID: 3102165

Conference Leaders: Dr. Bill Rogers/Dr. Charlotte Yeh

TTY Communications Relay Services are available for the hearing impaired. For TTY services dial 7-1-1 or 1-800-855-2880 and for Internet Relay services click here http://www.consumer.att.com/relay/which/index.html . A relay communications assistant will help.

ENCORE: Call Number 1-800-642-1687 ; Conference ID Number 3102165

"Encore" is a recording of this call that can be accessed by dialing 1-800-642-1687 and entering the Conference ID number of 3102165. You can access the recording of the call from Monday, February 6 through Wednesday, February 8, 2006

National Provider Identifier Implementation
Forwarded from CMS

The National Provider Identifier (NPI) Final Rule requires health care providers who are organizations and who are covered entities under HIPAA to determine if they have "subparts" that should be assigned NPIs. The NPI Final Rule provides guidance to those health care providers in making those determinations.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) has communicated to the Provider Enrollment staff at the carriers and fiscal intermediaries the Medicare program's expectations concerning the determination of subparts for NPI assignment purposes. CMS has posted a document describing the subpart concept and its relationship to the way in which Medicare enrolls its organization providers at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/06_implementation.asp#TopOfPage .

This document will be helpful to providers in understanding the issue of subparts and how subpart determination could be done in a way that helps to promote smoother and more efficient Medicare claims processing during the implementation of the NPI in the Medicare program.

he health care industry in general has expressed an interest in being informed of this type of information. CMS is making this information available on the CMS website so that it is easily available to interested parties.

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