**Updated March 24, 2011- Special Open Door Forum: Study and Report on the Development of Home Health Payment Revisions to Ensure Access to Care, and Payment for Severity of Illness - Thursday, March 31, 2011 from 1:00pm - 2:300pm ET. The purpose of this Special ODF CMS needs your help identifying beneficiaries who may have difficulty accessing Medicare home health services. We would like to hear about your experiences serving hard to reach populations. Also, we would like you to describe challenges certain beneficiaries may experience in accessing Medicare home health services. This Special Open Door Forum will be dedicated to this very important issue and sharing your first hand experiences. We hope that you will take advantage of this unique and valuable opportunity to help us better define and understand the low-income, underserved and/or high severity beneficiaries for whom the HH PPS may not accurately account and serve. This agenda is subject to Change. This forum will be available as a streaming audio webcast over the Internet. To register to hear the call over the Internet, visit: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/events/event.asp?id=634. If you wish to participate via conference call, dial 1-800-837-1935 Conference ID 51381075. Please see the full participation announcement in the Downloads section below. Thank you for your continued interest in the CMS Open Door Forums.
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Rural Health Open Door Forum Overview
The Rural Health 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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