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**Updated January 19, 2012- The next Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from 2pm-3pmET. This Forum is an audio only streaming web forum. Registration for audio only streaming web forum will open on February 22, 2012. You will receive the registration link in a separate notice. Please see the Downloads section below for the full announcement. Thank you for your continued interest in the CMS Open Door Forums. **Updated January 10, 2012- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pleased to announce the scheduled release of modifications to the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code set. These changes have been posted to the HCPCS website at http://www.cms.gov/HCPCSReleaseCodeSets/02_HCPCS_Quarterly_Update.asp. Changes are effective on the date indicated on the update. Thank you. **Updated November 14, 2011- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have posted two corrections to the wage index for the Calendar Year (CY) 2012 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule (CMS-1353-F). We are correcting the wage index values for Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) 12060 (Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA) and for CBSA 26980 (Iowa City, IA). For CY 2012, the wage index for CBSA 12060 should be 0.9575 and the wage index for CBSA 26980 should be 1.0070. The corrected wage index files have been posted in the Spotlights section at http://www.cms.gov/center/hha.asp. ****** Home Health, Hospice, and Durable Medical Equipment Open Door Forum (ODF) Overview: The Home Health, Hospice & Durable Medical Equipment ODF addresses the concerns of three unique health care areas within the Medicare & Medicaid programs. Issues related to Home Health PPS, the newly proposed competitive bidding for DME, and the Medicare Hospice benefit are all topics the forum has covered. Many of the issues covered bridge concerns within all three settings, and the combination of the topics under one Forum has been useful to many participants. We continue to hold Special ODFs when individual policy issues require special attention. Timely announcements and clarifications regarding important rulemaking, agency program initiatives, and other related areas are also included in the forums. | Downloads | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - Announcement: Home Health, Hospice & DME Open Door Forum (pdf, 24KB)
Web Sites Mentioned at the Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Home Health, Hospice & DME ODF (pdf, 24KB)
Carrier/FI Directory (PDF, 338KB)
A/B MAC Jurisdiction Map (PDF, 32KB)
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