Topics Related to All Providers

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is streamlining the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program. The goal is to move the program beyond requirements for meaningful use to increase focus on interoperability and improving patient access to health information.
Registration is open for the July 2018 instructor-led provider training courses listed below. Slots are limited.
Providers must submit a Fingerprinting Criminal Background Check application within 30 days of receiving the request notification to avoid being terminated for cause.
Note: This article was originally published as a Special Bulletin in January 2018, with updates regarding clinical pharmacist practitioners.
Registration is open for the June 2018 instructor-led provider training courses listed below. Slots are limited.
The following new or amended combined North Carolina Medicaid and NC Health Choice clinical coverage policies are available on Medicaid’s Clinical Coverage Policy web pages.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is overhauling and streamlining the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program. The goal is to move the program beyond requirements for meaningful use (MU) to increase focus on interoperability and improving patient access to health information.
Effective Oct. 1, 2017, Clinical Coverage Policy 2B-1, Nursing Facility Services, was revised in accordance with 42 CFR 483 Subpart B. 
Clinical Coverage Policy 11A-15, Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for Solid Tumors of Childhood, has been revised.
Effective July 1, 2018, North Carolina Medicaid has revised Clinical Coverage Policy (CCP) 1-O-3, Keloid Excision and Scar Revision, to clarify the procedure for proper submission of preoperative photographs to CSRA as part of the prior approval process. The preoperative photographs of keloids or scars should be clearly marked with: