What educational efforts is CMS undertaking to help lower the error rate?
A5. CMS continues to develop Medicare provider educational material with the official CMS brand, “The Medicare Learning Network”. As part of this initiative, CMS has developed over 250 national provider education articles annually which outline, on a flow basis and in plain language, the coverage, billing and coding rules associated with Medicare program changes. These articles can be easily accessed through a search engine on www.cms.hhs.gov/medlearn/matters, which will pull articles, by year, based on user entered key words or phrases. In 2005 CMS will step up its efforts to expand the current FAQ database available on www.cms.hhs.gov by generating and posting FAQs of interest to FFS Medicare providers. FAQs will be automatically generated from Medlearn Matters article, solicited from FIs and carriers (who interact directly with the providers who bill them), and from over 50 national associations. As part of the effort to centrally locate information and make it easily accessible, CM
