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CMS Posts Details for Special Open Door Forum on Pre-Claim Review Demonstration

By Rachel Hammon posted Jun 10,2016 10:53 AM

  

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a Special Open Door Forum (ODF) call to allow home health agencies, physicians, and other interested parties to learn about the Pre-Claim Review Demonstration for Home Health Services.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

2:00pm – 3:00pm Eastern Time

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

Conference ID #: 94873140

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.

CMS will be implementing a 3-year Medicare pre-claim review demonstration for home health services in the states of Illinois, Florida, and Texas by the end of 2016.  CMS plans to include Michigan and Massachusetts in the demonstration in 2017.  CMS is testing whether pre-claim review helps reduce expenditures, while maintaining or improving quality of care.  Additionally, CMS believes the demonstration will also help assure services are provided in compliance with applicable Medicare coverage and payment rules, thereby assisting in the prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse.  This demonstration should not delay care to Medicare beneficiaries and does not alter the Medicare home health benefit. 

You can learn more about the Pre-Claim Review Demonstration for Home Health Services by going to:  https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Monitoring-Programs/Medicare-FFS-Compliance-Programs/Pre-Claim-Review-Initiatives/Overview.html.

Questions regarding the demonstration may be sent to:  HHPreClaimDemo@cms.hhs.gov.  Many times if you send in questions ahead of the call, CMS makes attempts to answer them on the call so you are encouraged to get your questions to CMS as soon as possible. 

A transcript and audio recording of this Special ODF will be posted to the Special Open Door Forum website for downloading at: http://www.cms.gov/OpenDoorForums/05_ODF_SpecialODF.asp

 

 

 

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