Attention all Practice Management Software Vendors (licensed distributors, dealers and/or developers/maintainers of computer software) and System Maintainers with clients submitting Medicare claims to National Government Services, Inc.

National Government Services will be migrating from our current EDI Gateway from the Staten Island, NY location to a consolidated data center located in Shelbyville, KY. National Government Services has purchased a translator known as M2. The National Government Services EDI migration to the M2 platform must be completed by 12/31/07. This move will result in efficiencies to our overall EDI operation. The purpose of this standardization is to be able to process Medicare electronic transactions in a uniform manner within National Government Services and provide you with a greater level of customer service.

The migration of all providers and electronic trading partners will begin October 2007 and must be completed by December 31, 2007.

Who will be affected by this Migration?

Any Medicare Provider or Electronic Trading Partner who conducts business with National Government Services electronically will be affected by this migration. This includes Electronic claim submission; download of Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA), eligibility downloads, etc.

What must all Practice Management Software Vendors and System Maintainers do?

Please provide National Government Services with a listing of all of the Submitters Name/Numbers of your clients that are currently transmitting Medicare claims to National Government Services.

Please include a Vendor Contact Name, Phone Number and e-mail address as we will send a listing to the contact person containing the new M2 Submitter Numbers to be used by your clients.

Lists must be received by: 11/09/07

**If we do not receive this information, your clients will loose their ability to send claims to National Government Services.

Please fax your information to 315-442-4261.

It will be the vendor’s responsibility to distribute these new Submitter Numbers to their clients and to assist them with making any updates necessary to their billing software.

*If you received this notification and you are not a practice management software vendor or system maintainer, please pass this notification to your software vendor so they may make the appropriate changes.

Below is a summary of the M2 Translator EDI changes for Part B that you need to be aware of for the migration.

• All existing and new submitters will be set up on M2 platform. They will be set up with a mailbox to send and receive files. The new format will be:
• Positions 1 and 2: NY
• Positions 3 through 5: three-position line of business
• Positions 4 through 9: a sequential number.
  Ex., NYB000001
• Connectivity Changes – e-Link users will have to select software, as e-Link is being eliminated. FTP will continue to be supported. IVANS and VisionShare will be supporting the migration for their clients.

IVANS will be contacting your clients and will assist them during this change from e-Link to FTP.

Once submitters are migrated over to the M2 translator they will no longer be able to use their ‘legacy’ Submitter Number.

For additional information about the M2 migration and the changes involved, please go to the following: http://www.empiremedicare.com/news/nynews07/092507mig.htm. As our migration proceeds, we will provide you with additional information related to the EDI Gateway migration. Information will be posted to our Web site under In the Spotlight, and included in our monthly newsletter, the Medicare Monthly Review. As information becomes available, we will send automatic notices to our Listserv ® subscribers.

Please be aware that this will be the last mailing that will be sent to vendors, you must now go to our Web site and request to be added to our Electronic Mailing list as all future notifications will be done electronically.

http://www.empiremedicare.com/servlist/listservformindex.htm

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