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MLN Educational Web Guides

MLN Educational Web Guides

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Use of Rubber Stamps for Signatures

 

For medical review purposes, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that services ordered/provided to Medicare beneficiaries be authenticated by a handwritten or electronic signature.  With few exceptions, stamped signatures are not acceptable.  Effective June 18, 2013, stamped signatures will be allowed if an author can provide proof of an inability to sign orders because of a physical disability.

Please refer to MLN Matters® Article MM8219 for more information about signature requirements.

 

Welcome to the Medicare Learning Network® (MLN) Educational Web Guides Overview page, your destination for educational and informational resources related to certain CMS initiatives. The MLN Educational Web Guides provides information on Evaluation and Management (E/M) services; guided pathways to resources and topics of interest; lists of health care management products; as well as easy-to-understand billing and coding products.

Go to the left hand column of the page and click on Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services to view the "Evaluation and Management Services Guide" the "1995 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services" and the "1997 Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services."

Go to the left hand column of the page and click on Medicare Learning Network® (MLN) Guided Pathways (GP) to Medicare Resources to view four resource booklets (Guided Pathways Basic Curriculum, Guided Pathways to Medicare Resources Intermediate Curriculum Part A, Guided Pathways to Medicare Resources Intermediate Curriculum Part B, and MLN Guided Pathways to Medicare Resources Provider Specific). The Guided Pathways curriculum is designed to allow learners to easily scan and select CMS resources by clicking on topics of interest. The curriculum directs the user to resources for CMS Program policies and requirements for health care professionals who enroll in Medicare using the 855 A, B, I, or S forms.

In order to focus on MLN products created especially for health care professionals, go to the left hand column of the page and click on Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Educators and Students to view a list of health care management products that may be useful to supplement instructors' existing educational curriculum.

Go to the left hand column of the page and click on Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Billers and Coders to understand billing and coding products. You will also find useful information to help you understand and streamline your claims submissions in order to receive accurate Medicare reimbursement.

Go to the left hand column of the page and click on Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Inpatient Hospitals to view products that will assist in understanding the various prospective payment system rates and classification criterion for reimbursement to acute inpatient hospitals, home health agencies, hospice, hospital outpatient, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.

If you would like to contact the MLN, please e-mail us at MLN@cms.hhs.gov.

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