Open Door Forum

The next monthly Skilled Nursing Facility/Long Term Care Open Door Forum will take place at 2 p.m. (Eastern) on Thursday. The monthly national conference call features officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services giving news updates and answering stakeholders' live questions from around the country. Registration for the audio only streaming web forum will open today, according to CMS. For the latest updates on SNF Open Door Forums, click on the headline above and then on the link here.

The government's next long-term care "Open Door Forum" conference call will be exactly a week after Thanksgiving on Dec. 1. Providers and other interested stakeholders are invited to take part in this free, monthly conference call and Q & A session hosted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The hourlong event begins at 2 p.m. Eastern. Participants (who will be put on mute until the Q&A portion) are encouraged to call in about 15 minutes early at (800) 837-1935. Use conference I.D. number 93952052.

Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be hosting a monthly Skilled Nursing/LTC Open Door Forum a week from Thursday (Oct. 20) — not on Oct. 13, as originally announced. It promises to be anything but a run-of-the-mill provider conference call.

Overwhelmed by the initial outpouring of long-term care providers wanting to learn more about pending changes to the MDS 3.0 system, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host an additional conference call on the subject Thursday. The initial 7,000 telephone lines set up by the government for its Aug. 23 call were quickly snapped up, locking many out. Changes go into effect for fiscal 2012, which begins Oct. 1 this year.

Federal regulators will hold their monthly national conference call for long-term care providers at 2 p.m. Eastern on Thursday. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Skilled Nursing Facility/Long Term Care Open Door Forum is free and open to all interested stakeholders. The proposed agenda is as follows: MDS 3.0 Update; Use of Dash; CMS Net; Claims Processing Clarification; Contact Information Update; QAPI. The hourlong session lasts about an hour and concludes with a wide-ranging question-and-answer session. Participants should call about 15 minutes before the start to (800) 837-1935 (Conference ID 59677634).

New federal initiatives to help people with disabilities, including older adults, find housing options will be the subject of a Special Open Door Forum on Tuesday. The 90-minute conference call begins at 11:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). It is open to all interested stakeholders and can be accessed by dialing (800) 837-1935 and using conference ID number 44280806. The forum will focus on ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a Skilled Nursing Facility/Long-Term Care Open Door Forum conference call at 2 p.m. (Easter Standard Time) Tuesday for all interested stakeholders. Regulators will update participants on new events and details, and then field questions from anyone attending—in person or on the phone call. To take part in this monthly event, call (800) 837-1935 and give conference ID number 29122620.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has hosted free monthly update conference calls for nursing home operators for several years. Next Thursday's edition is bound to be one of the most popular ever. Implementation glitches and other news about the new MDS 3.0 nursing home assessment tool will be the hot topic during the SNF Open Door Forum, which begins at 2 p.m. Eastern. (See the top story at left and the blog entry below for more details and perspective on the subject.) To take part in the call ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a skilled nursing / long-term care Open Door Forum conference call for providers at 2 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday. It is the final regularly scheduled forum before the scheduled Oct. 1 start of the new MDS 3.0 / RUG-IV assessment and payment systems. They have been called the most dramatic changes for providers in several decades.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is gearing up to educate nursing home providers about the coming changes with MDS 3.0. An Open Door Forum, which will cover MDS 3.0 and MDS training, among other topics, is scheduled for this afternoon.