CMS Hospital/Quality Initiative Open Door Forum Scheduled for November 29

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the next hospital/quality initiative open door forum has been scheduled for November 29, 2022, at 2:00 pm. Agenda topics for the call include:

• Announcements & Updates

• • Hospital Price Transparency Sample Format Announcement
  • OPPS/ASC Final Rule Policies
  • Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Policies
    • REH Conditions of Participation
    • REH Payment
    • REH Enrollment
    • REH Physician Self-Referral Law Update
  • OPPS Payment Policies
    • Annual Update
    • Remote Behavioral Health Services
    • 340B Drugs
    • Clinic Visit — Rural Sole Community Hospital Exemption
    • Payment Adjustment for Domestically Made N95 Masks
  • ASC Payment Policies
    • Annual Update
    • Non-Opioid Alternatives Under Section 6082 of the SUPPORT Act
  • Partial Hospitalization Program Policies
  • Organ Acquisition Payment Policies
    • Counting Research Organs
    • Costs of Potential Organ Donors for Cardiac Deaths

• Open Q&A

To participate: dial 888-455-1397 and reference conference passcode: 5109694.

Instant replay (audio recording) of the call will be available: 888-562-0227 through December 1, 2022. No passcode is needed.