Rural Health Open Door Forum - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Special Open Door Forum:

Final Rule CMS-1599-F: Discussion of the Hospital Inpatient Admission Order and Certification; 2 Midnight Benchmark for Inpatient Hospital Admissions.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

1:00pm – 2:00pm Eastern Time

Conference Call Only

CMS will host a third, follow-up Special Open Door Forum (ODF) call to allow hospitals, practitioners, and other interested parties to ask questions on the physician order and physician certification, inpatient hospital admission and medical review criteria that were released on August 2, 2013 in the FY 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)/Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) final rule (CMS-1599-F).

Feedback and questions on the two midnight provision for admission and medical review can be sent to IPPSAdmissions@cms.hhs.gov . Questions on Part B inpatient billing and the clarifications regarding the physician order and certification should be sent to the subject matter staff listed in the final rule. CMS also recently released New Guidance on the Physician Order and Physician Certification for Hospital Inpatient Admissions.

We look forward to your participation. Please see the Downloads section for the full participation announcement for more detailed information.

Special Open Door Participation Instructions:

Participant Dial-In Number: 1-866-501-5502

Conference ID #: 98515298

Participants do not need to pre-register to join this conference. However, because of the expected high call volume, we kindly ask you call in a few minutes prior to the call start.

Rural Health Open Door Forum

Overview:
The Rural Health Open Door Forum (ODF) addresses Rural Health Clinic (RHC), Critical Access Hospital (CAH) and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) issues, as well as some inclusion of other questions and concerns that occur in clinical practice pertaining to other CMS payment systems that also extend into these settings. Topics that frequently arise on this forum often deal with payment & billing for services subject to Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and/or Physician Shortage Area (PSA) status, cost report clarifications, classifications for & qualifications of rural provider types, and the many special provisions being implemented for improving rural health in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Timely announcements and clarifications regarding important rulemaking, quality program initiatives, and other related areas are also included in the Forums.
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The Special Open Door Forum “CMS Rule 1599-F: Discussion of the Hospital Inpatient Admission Order and Certification: 2 Midnight Benchmark for Inpatient Hospital Admissions” scheduled for Tuesday, November 12th from 1-2PM EST has a Participant Dial-in number 1-(866) 501-5502 and the Conference ID number is 98515298. Please see download information below.