Medicaid Bulletin

In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing 12 new procedure codes to describe the introduction or infusion of therapeutics into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS), effective Aug. 1, 2020.

PA waiver extended to October 31, 2021

The portal has been updated with an enhanced view of Financial and Testing submissions for participating providers.

PA Resumes for CDSAs Effective October 15, 2021

The week of October 11, Carolina Access practices will receive a new PCCM agreement from CCNC. Signing this agreement allows practices to receive or continue to receive practice assignment data or quality data for NC Medicaid Direct beneficiaries. This does not apply to Carolina Access providers participating in the EBCI Tribal Option.

Looking to learn about challenges and barriers to connecting to the statewide Health Information Exchange

All submissions are due Friday, Oct. 15, 2021.

Organizational providers with certain taxonomies must have at least one active affiliated individual provider with one active taxonomy by Nov. 21, 2021.

Last Month to Submit Program Year 2021 Attestations and the Security Risk Analysis

Information for providers to prepare for the reporting year 2023 Payment Error Rate Measurement audit.