Medicare Training, Brochures Available

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services offers an updated Web-based training course to explain Medicare's coverage and billing for women's preventive health services.

The 90-minute course features billing guidelines for services including mammographies, pelvic exams, and bone density measurements.

For more information, contact the CMS by visiting https://cms.meridianksi.com.

CMS also has updated preventive services brochures for health professionals in the following areas: expanded benefits, diabetes-related services, cancer screenings, adult immunizations, bone mass measurements, glaucoma screenings, and smoking and tobacco-use cessation counseling.

To download the brochures or view them online, visit www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/MPUB/list.asp.