CMS - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:

Advisory Committees

www.cms.gov/FACA

Correct Coding Initiative (CCI)
www.cms.gov/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/

Correct Coding Initiative Edits - Physicians
www.cms.gov/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/NCCIEP/list.asp#TopOfPage

Correct Cocing Initiative Edits - HOPPS and Therapy

http://www.cms.gov/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/02_hoppscciedits.asp#TopOfPage

Coverage Center
www.cms.gov/center/coverage.asp

CMS Home Page
www.cms.gov/

CMS Online Manual:

Instructions, Program Memorandums and Transmittals
www.cms.gov/manuals/

CMS Rulings

www.cms.gov/Rulings

e-Rulemaking Comments

www.cms.gov/eRulemaking

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

www.cms.gov/FOIA

HOPPS – Hospital Outpatient PPS
www.cms.gov/HospitalOutpatientPPS/

Internet Manuals
www.cms.gov/Manuals/IOM/list.asp#TopOfPage

Medically Unlikely Edits

www.cms.gov/NationalCorrectCodInitEd/08_MUE.asp#TopOfPage

Medicare 
www.cms.gov/home/medicare.asp

Medicare Learning Network

http://www.cms.gov/MLNEdWebGuide/01_Overview.asp#TopOfPage

Medicare Modernization Update (MMU)

www.cms.gov/MMAUpdate

Medicare Regional Offices
www.cms.gov/RegionalOffices/99_RegionalMap.asp#TopOfPage

Office of Attorney Advisor

www.cms.gov/OfficeAttorneyAdvisor

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

www.cms.gov/PaperworkReductionActof1995

Physician Fee Schedule
www.cms.gov/PhysicianFeeSched/01_overview.asp

Physician Quality Reporting Initiative

www.cms.gov/PQRI/

Physician Self Referral

www.cms.gov/PhysicianSelfReferral/01_overview.asp#TopOfPage

Public Affairs - Newsroom Center
www.cms.gov/center/press.asp

Quarterly Provider Update (QPU)

www.cms.gov/QuarterlyProviderUpdate

Regulations & Guidance
www.cms.gov/home/regsguidance.asp

SBA Ombudsman Liaison

www.cms.gov/CMSSmallBusAdminOmbuds

Transmittals
www.cms.gov/Transmittals/01_overview.asp

CMS Database Lookups

• Call Center Directory

http://www.cms.gov/center/provider.asp

• CMS Contact links
  www.cms.gov/ContactCMS/

• Coverage Database: National Coverage Determinations
  www.cms.gov/mcd/index_list.asp?list_type=ncd

 

• Medicare Coverage Database - National & Local Coverage Policies
  www.cms.gov/mcd/search.asp?

• Medicare & Medicaid Intermediary-Carrier Directory

www.cms.gov/ContractingGeneralInformation/

Downloads/02_ICdirectory.pdf

• Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, National or Local by HCPCS code
  www.cms.gov/pfslookup/02_PFSsearch.asp?

agree=yes&next=Accept

• Remittance Advice Remark Codes (REMARKS)

www.cmsremarkcodes.info/

• Toll-Free Telephone Numbers
  

http://www.cms.gov/CMSHeadquarters/06_MainContactNumbers.asp

• NPI Registry

https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/NPPES/Welcome.do

Additional Websites

American College of Radiology (ACR)
www.acr.org

American Hospital Association-NUBC: National Uniform Billing Committee 
www.nubc.org/

Federal Register Documents
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Lawdog
www.lawdog.com/

Managed Care Glossary of Terms
www.pohly.com/terms.html

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
www.archives.gov/welcome/index.html

National Archives: Office of the Inspector General
www.archives.gov/oig/index.html

National Drug Code Directory
www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/database/

Office of the Inspector General – OIG: Current Information 
www.oig.hhs.gov/

RBMA-Radiology Business Management Association

http://www.rbma.org/

Society of Nuclear Medicine Coding Corner
www.interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=4816&RPID=10

Radiopharmaceutical reference sites found through Google:

• List Of Radiopharmaceuticals
  www.nuclearpharmacy.uams.edu/RPLIST.html

• Medicines used for diagnosis
  www.drugs.com/cons/Radiopharmaceuticals.html

** For additional sites/reference information use Google or a similar search engine
    and type in the word “Radiopharmaceuticals”