Nov. 25-29: CMS comment deadlines are among the week’s healthcare finance events

Significant upcoming events in healthcare finance include a range of comment deadlines from CMS regarding provider payment policies.

Information on those deadlines are below, along with our complete listing of healthcare finance-related hearings, conferences, webinars, public forums and deadlines for the week of Nov. 25.

Monday, Nov. 25

Deadline to apply for grant funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support integrated rural healthcare networks. Learn more.

Deadline for feedback to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on a potential Oncology Care First (OCF) Model. Learn more.

Tuesday, Nov. 26

Deadline for practices to enroll in the Advancing Clinical Excellence Network, a CMS-funded coalition of 12 quality improvement organizations that will provide complimentary support to providers and health systems in seven states. Learn more.

Wednesday, Nov. 27

Deadline for comments to CMS on a measure under development for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System for acute cardiovascular-related admissions of patients with heart failure. Learn more.

Thursday, Nov. 28

Thanksgiving Day

Friday, Nov. 29

Deadline to submit comments to the House Ways and Means Committee’s Rural and Underserved Communities Health Task Force on ways to improve care delivery and health outcomes in these communities. Learn more.

Effective date for changes to CMS’s Conditions of Participation regulations for providers. Learn more.

Deadline for hospitals to submit comments to CMS on a proposal to collect acquisition cost data from hospitals participating in the 340B drug discount program. Learn more.