Special Open Door Forum: Templates and Clinical Data Elements (CDEs) for Vitamin and Metabolic Assays

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Special Open Door Forum:

Templates and Clinical Data Elements (CDEs) for

Vitamin and Metabolic Assays

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

2:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time

Conference Call Only

PCG will host a Special Open Door Forum (SODF) to allow physicians, providers, clinical laboratories, professional associations, and/or all other interested parties to provide feedback on the templates and CDEs drafted for Vitamin and Metabolic Assays that are posted on the CMS.gov website.  The printable clinical templates and suggested CDEs listed below, which describe the data elements that CMS believes would be useful in supporting the documentation requirements for coverage of Vitamin and Metabolic Assays, are as follows:

1. Order, and
2. Progress Note

The Clinical Templates and CDEs will be available on the CMS.gov website just prior to the SODF, and can be accessed through the link below: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Computer-Data-and-Systems/Electronic-Clinical-Templates/Other-Benefit-Templates/Other-Templates.html

Providers, clinical laboratories, and IT vendors can choose whether or not to use the printable clinical templates and/or the suggested CDEs. The suggested CDEs aren't a form, but a tool that IT vendors can integrate into electronic health record (EHR) systems to create prompts to assist providers with their medical record documentation for Medicare purposes. The templates and CDEs are intended to be a helpful guide but every section may not apply to all patients’ ordered laboratory services.  Providers and laboratories can choose the information or CDEs that do apply.  Once completed by the physician or other practitioner, the resulting documentation would become part of the medical record.

Feedback and questions on our drafts can be sent to: clinicaltemplates@cms.hhs.gov. We look forward to your participation.

Special Open Door Participation Instructions:

Participant Dial-In Number: 1-(800)-837-1935

Conference ID: 8085986

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A transcript and audio recording of this Special ODF will be posted to the Special Open Door Forum website at https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Outreach/OpenDoorForums/PodcastAndTranscripts.html for downloading under downloads section.

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