Open Payments National Provider Call: Your Role in Health Care Transparency

Thursday March 19, 2020 2:00pm – 3:00pm (ET)

Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 19, 2020 for an informative session on the Open Payments Program and the upcoming review, dispute and correction processes.

Reporting entities are currently submitting data to the Open Payments system on payments or transfers of value made to physicians and teaching hospitals during 2019. Beginning in April, physicians and teaching hospitals have 45 days to review and dispute records attributed to them. CMS will publish the Open Payments Program Year 2019 data and updates to previous program years in June 2020.

During this call, learn about the Open Payments program and how to access the system to review the accuracy of the data submitted about you before it is published on the CMS website.

A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

Topics:

Overview of the Open Payments Program
Program Timeline
Program Roles
Registration Process

Target Audience: physicians, teaching hospitals and office staff.

CMS requests that all press inquiries related to this call and the Open Payments program are sent to the CMS press office mailbox at press@cms.hhs.gov. Please include your professional contact information, specific concerns, and your deadline.

Note: The Review and Dispute period is targeted to begin on April 1, 2020 and end on May 15, 2020

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Questions — Contact Live Help Desk

Need help or have questions? Contact the Open Payments Help Desk at openpayments@cms.hhs.gov or call 1-855-326-8366 (TTY Line: 1-844-649-2766). The Help Desk is available Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (ET), excluding Federal holidays.

The Help Desk refers media inquiries to CMS’ Press Office for response.