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Long-Term Care Hospital Transmittals

The list below shows the transmittals that are directed to the Long-Term Care Hospital provider community, but the list may not include all instructions for which Long-Term Care Hospital providers are responsible. For a list of all instructions, view the Transmittals web page under Regulations and Guidance.

CR # Release Date Subject MLN Article #
5428 12/22/2006 Medicare Payment for Preadministration-Related Services Associated with IVIG Administration-Payment Extended through CY 2007 MM5428
5745 10/15/2007 Billing Instructions Regarding Payment for Hospice Care Based on Location Where Care is Furnished MM5745
5567 11/02/2007 Reporting of Additional Data to Describe Services on Hospice Claims MM5567
5768 11/02/2007 Common Working File (CWF) Informational Unsolicited Responses for RDF Claims Overlapping Inpatient Hospital Stays MM5768
6114 07/03/2008 Update-Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Rate Year 2009 MM6114
5285 03/21/2007 Provider/Supplier Enrollment Approval Letters N/A
7150 01/21/2011 Processing Claims Spanning More than Ten Years with Unlimited Occurrence Span Codes (OSCs): Phase III N/A
5652 06/15/2007 Update-Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Rate Year 2008 MM5652
5597 06/29/2007 IOM Pub 100-09, Chapters 3, Provider Inquiries and Chapter 6 - Provider Customer Service Program Updates MM5597
5597 07/13/2007 IOM Pub. 100-09, Chapters 3- Provider Inquiries and Chapter6- Provider Customer Service Program Updates N/A
5748 10/18/2007 Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes N/A
5961 04/04/2008 Extension of Reasonable Cost Payment for Clinical Lab Tests Furnished by Hospitals with Fewer Than 50 Beds in Qualified Rural Areas N/A
5748 11/07/2007 Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes MM5748
5846 12/14/2007 The Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Medicare Beneficiary Data for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 for Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), and Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs) MM5846
7029 07/08/2010 Updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) PPS Changes due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) N/A
7029 07/15/2010 Updates to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), and Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) PPS Changes due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) MM7029
7088 08/13/2010 Processing Claims Spanning More than Ten Years with Unlimited Occurrence Span Codes (OSCs) N/A
7134 09/17/2010 Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes MM7134
7134 10/01/2010 Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes MM7134
5474 05/04/2007 The Use of Benefit's Exhaust (BE) Day as the Day of Discharge for Payment Purposes for the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS) and Clarification of Discharge for Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCH) and the Allowance of No-Pay Benefits Exhaust Bills (TOB 110) N/A
5729 09/21/2007 Unlabeled Use for Anti-Cancer Drugs: Medical Literature Used to Determine Medically Accepted Indications for Drugs and Biologicals Used in Anti-Cancer Treatment MM5729
5677 09/27/2007 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Procedures MM5677
7122 10/28/2010 Processing Claims Spanning More than Ten Years with Unlimited Occurrences Span Codes (OSCs): Phase II N/A
5955 03/07/2008 Changes to the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) Pricer based on the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 (Recurring CR: R20812Q) MM5955
7192 12/03/2010 Outlier Reconciliation and other Outlier Manual Updates for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) PPS, Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS N/A
6634 09/09/2009 Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes MM6634
6634 09/17/2009 Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) PPS Changes MM634
5323 02/02/2007 Payment of Same Day Transfer Claims Under the Long Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) N/A
7151 05/13/2011 Processing Claims Spanning More than Ten Years with Unlimited Occurrence Span Codes (OSCs): Final Completion N/A
7464 06/17/2011 Revision to Formula to Compute the Time Value of Money under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF PPS), Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF PPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH PPS) N/A
7508 08/26/2011 Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS, and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Changes MM7508
8009 2012-11-01 New Informational Unsolicited Response (IUR) Process to Identify Previously Paid Claims for Services Furnished to Medicare Beneficiaries Classified as "Unlawfully Present" in the United States MM8009
8007 2012-11-01 New Informational Unsolicited Response (IUR) Process to Identify Previously Paid Claims for Services Furnished to Incarcerated Medicare Beneficiaries MM8007
8078 2012-11-02 The Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Medicare Beneficiary Data for Fiscal Year 2010 for Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), and Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs) MM8078
7849 2012-11-02 Payment System (IPPS) Hospital Admission
8076 2012-12-21 Implementation of the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program and Hospital Readmission Reduction Program for the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration for FY 2013 MM8076
8041 2013-01-04 Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) PPS Changes MM8041
8046 2013-01-31 Modification of Payment Window Edit in the Common Working File (CWF) to Modify Diagnostic Service List MM8046
8078 2013-03-21 The Supplemental Security Income (SSI)/Medicare Beneficiary Data for Fiscal Year 2010 for Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs), and Long Term Care Hospitals (LTCHs) MM8078