Special Open Door on Home Health Payments

BALTIMORE — CMS said it needs 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, as well as the challenges certain beneficiaries
may experience in accessing Medicare home health services,”
according to an agency notice.

CMS will hold a Special Open Door Forum to hear first-hand
reports on the subject March 31 (Thursday) from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EDT
to “better define and understand the low-income, underserved,
and/or high-severity beneficiaries for whom the home health
prospective payment system may not accurately account and
serve.”

The Open Door will be a streaming audio webcast; register to
hear the call over the Internet at www.CMS.gov/apps/events/event.asp?id=634.