Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Special Open Door Forum: Section 3113: Treatment of Certain Complex Diagnostic Laboratory Tests Demonstration Thursday, July 21, 2011 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Time Conference Call Only
The purpose of this Special Open Door Forum (ODF) is to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to ask questions about the Demonstration mandated by Section 3113 of the Affordable Care Act. A notice (CMS 5058-N) announcing the Demonstration was published in the Federal Register on July 5, 2011 (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-05/pdf/2011-16721.pdf). The Demonstration allows a separate payment to laboratories performing certain complex laboratory tests billed with a date of service that would, under standard Medicare rules, be bundled into the payment to the hospital or critical access hospital (CAH). The Demonstration period is limited to 2 years subject to a $100 million total payment limit. The statute requires a Report to Congress that includes an assessment of the impact of the Demonstration on access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and expenditures. To read more about the Demonstration and to view presentation materials, visit: http://www.cms.gov/DemoProjectsEvalRpts/MD/itemdetail.asp?itemID=CMS1240611 . Participants may submit questions prior to the Special ODF to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 5pm ET. We look forward to your participation. Special Open Door Participation Instructions: Dial: 1-800-837-1935 & Conference ID: 82798383 Note: TTY Communications Relay Services are available for the Hearing Impaired. For TTY services dial 7-1-1 or 1-800-855-2880. A Relay Communications Assistant will help. A transcript and audio recording of this Special ODF will be posted to the Special Open Door Forum website at http://www.cms.gov/OpenDoorForums/05_ODF_SpecialODF.asp<http://www.cms.hhs.gov/OpenDoorForums/05_ODF_SpecialODF.asp> and will be accessible for downloading beginning Thursday, August 11, 2011. For automatic emails of Open Door Forum schedule updates (E-Mailing list subscriptions) and to view Frequently Asked Questions please visit our website at http://www.cms.gov/opendoorforums/<http://www.cms.hhs.gov/opendoorforums/> . Thank you for your interest in CMS Open Door Forums. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listservs.pdf). If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?INDEX) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
