August 27- 29, 2012
The link below is the Federal Register notice that announces the second semi-annual meeting of the Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment (HOP, the Panel) for 2012. The purpose of the Panel is to advise the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the clinical integrity of the APC groups and their associated weights, and hospital outpatient therapeutic supervision issues.
Of particular interest to rural hospitals and CAHS, the Panel will be reviewing recommendations from the public (including hospitals, organizations, associations) on the appropriate supervision level (general, direct, or personal) for individual hospital outpatient therapeutic services. More information on the process to submit recommendations for this meeting, and on recent changes to the supervision level for individual outpatient therapeutic services can be found here.
Deadline for presentations and comments to be sent to CMS: Friday, July 27, 2012; 5 p.m. EDT.
For more information, please click here
