Additional Updated July 14, 2011- Special Open Door Forum: Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program: FY 2013 Program Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET. This Special Open Door Forum will focus on understanding the finalized proposals for the FY 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Under the program, performance and quality of care factor into compensation, rewarding hospitals for better quality care and ultimately leading to improved patient health.
This ODF is particularly timely for hospitals, since the period of performance for the FY 2013 program began on July 1, 2011. Following this ODF, participants should know: Which hospitals are eligible for the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; The critical dates and milestones for the FY 2013 Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program; Understand the Clinical Process of Care measures and Patient Experience of Care dimensions that will be used to evaluate hospitals for the FY 2013 value-based incentive payment; How CMS will calculate each hospital's total performance score for the FY 2013 Program, including the difference between achievement and improvement points for each measure and weighting of the domain scores; Understand how consistency points will be calculated as part of the Patient Experience of Care domain score; and; How the linear exchange function will be used to translate Total Performance Scores into a value-based incentive payment.
Discussion materials for this Special ODF will be posted on the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program website and will be available for download at http://www.cms.gov/Hospital-Value-Based-Purchasing/ by July 22, 2011. If you wish to participate, dial 1-800-837-1935 Conference ID 79533903. This call will be Conference Call Only. Please see the Downloads section below for the full participation announcement. Thank you for your continued interest in the CMS Open Door Forums.
**Updated July 14, 2011- Special Open Door Forum: Providing an overview of the Quality Care Finder online resource - Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET. This Special Open Door Forum will focus will be to introduce the newest of the CMS Medicare.gov resources: the Quality Care Finder. Participants will be given a brief overview of the CMS quality commitment followed by a guided tour of the Quality Care Finder landing page and the many tools that are accessible through this online resource. Participants will also learn how CMS is working with partners to get the word out about this important new resource. If you wish to participate, dial 1-800-837-1935 Conference ID 78023856. This call will be Conference Call Only. Please see the Downloads section below for the full participation announcement. Thank you for your continued interest in the CMS Open Door Forums.
**Updated July 13, 2011- Registration Now Open for the ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians National Provider Call, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 from 1-3 pm ET.
Is your office preparing for a smooth transition to ICD-10 on October 1, 2013? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a National Provider Call on "ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians." CMS subject matter experts will discuss ways that physician offices can prepare for the change to ICD-10 for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.
Agenda: ICD-10 overview; Lab NCDs conversion process from ICD-9-CM to 1CD-10-CM; Home health conversion; OASIS and procedure code reporting; Update on claims spanning the implementation date; National ICD-10 implementation issues. Target Audience: Medical coders, physician office staff, provider billing staff, health records staff, vendors, educators, system maintainers, laboratories, and all Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) providers.
Registration: To register for this informative session, please go to
on the CMS website. Registration will close on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 1pm ET or when available space has been filled. No exceptions will be made. Please register early.
**Updated July 12, 2011- National Provider Call on "The ABCs of the Initial Preventive Physical Examination and Annual Wellness Visit" Thursday July 21, 2011; 1:30-3pm ET. Register Now!
Have you heard about Medicare's Initial Preventive Physical Examination, also known as the Welcome to Medicare Visit, and Annual Wellness Visit but don't know how they're different? Please join CMS for a National Provider Call to learn when to conduct these services, who can perform each service, who is eligible, and how to code and bill for each service.
Target Audience - Physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, health educators, registered dietitians, nutrition professionals, medical billers and coders and other interested health care professionals.
Registration Information- In order to receive the call-in information, you must register for the call. Registration will close at 1:30pm on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 or when available space has been filled; no exceptions will be made, so please register early. For more details, including instructions on registering for the call, please visit
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