Tag: Special Open Door Forum

Important New Info on Increased Payments for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Homebound Patients

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a Special Open Door Forum on the increased payment amounts for providers that vaccinate homebound Medicare beneficiaries for the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Effective June 8, 2021, Medicare will pay an additional amount of $35 per dose for administering the COVID-19 vaccine in the home for…

CMS to Bolster Payments for At-Home COVID-19 Vaccinations for Medicare Beneficiaries

CMS to hold special ODF on at-home COVID-19 Vaccinations for Medicare Beneficiaries. See below for more details The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced an additional payment amount for administering in-home COVID-19 vaccinations to Medicare beneficiaries who have difficulty leaving their homes or are otherwise hard-to-reach. There are approximately 1.6 million adults…

CMS Open Door Forum Series for IT, EHR Developers, Vendors to Develop Medicare Documentation Service

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a Special Open Door Forum series to educate the public about a new initiative underway to develop a Medicare Fee for Service (FFS) Documentation Requirement Lookup Service prototype. Also, to allow physicians, suppliers, IT and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Developers and Vendors, and/or all other interested…

CMS Open Door Forum on Hospice Outcomes & Patient Evaluation Tool

The Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a Special Open Door Forum on developing a hospice patient assessment tool, now called CMS. This ODF will be a status update on HOPE. The ODF will take place on Thursday, September 12, 2019 from 2:00…

CMS Open Door Forum on Open Payments Expansion under the SUPPORT Act

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a Special Open Door Forum on the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act and its impact on the Open Payments program. The Special Open Door Forum will be conference call only and held on Thursday, August…

CMS: Changes Coming to Hospice Evaluation and Assessment Reporting Tool (HEART)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) held a Special Open Door Forum (SODF) on the development of a hospice assessment tool on March 13, 2019.  The purpose was to provide an update on the status of the tool and allow hospices and other interested parties to…

CMS Special Open Door Forum on Hospice Assessment Tool

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) will hold a Special Open Door Forum to allow hospices and other interested parties to ask questions about the development of a Hospice Assessment Tool. The Special Open Door Forum will be on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from 2:00 PM…

NAHC Business Partner Members: CMS Holding Forum About Developing Medicare Fee for Service Documentation Requirement Lookup Service Prototype

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Program Integrity will host a series of SODF calls to educate the public about a new initiative underway to develop a Medicare Fee for Service (FFS) Documentation Requirement Lookup Service prototype. Also, to allow physicians, suppliers, IT and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Developers and Vendors, and/or…

CMS Hosts First Hospice HEART Assessment Special Open Door Forum

On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began engagement of hospice stakeholders in discussions on the ongoing process of developing an assessment tool (the Hospice Evaluation and Assessment Reporting Tool — HEART) for use as part of the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP by holding the first of several…