MLN Educational Web Guides

Welcome to the Medicare Learning Network® (MLN) Educational Web Guides Overview page, your destination for educational and informational resources related to certain Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) 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 Medicare FFS policies and requirements for providers who enroll in Medicare using the 855 A, B, I, or S forms.

In order to focus on MLN products created especially for FFS Providers, go to the left hand column of the page and click on Medicare Learning Network® Suite of Products and Resources for Instructors 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 Billing and Coding Professionals 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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