CMS still aiming to publish its data by September 30th.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just emailed out new updates for physicians looking to access their payment data on Open Payments:
Access to the Open Payments system will be unavailable for approximately two days due to the upcoming maintenance updates at the CMS Data Center.
“Please plan accordingly and we apologize for any inconvenience. CMS will alert you of each outage, as they are scheduled, with as much notification as possible.”
Date: Saturday, 8/30/2014
Start Time: 1:00 a.m.
End Time: 11:00 a.m.
Date: Saturday, 9/5/2014
Duration Time: More information to follow next week.
For questions please contact the Open Payments helpdesk (see below).
To allow ample time in the review, dispute and correction processes, CMS is extending the deadlines for review and dispute, and correction. The revised timeline is below:
- Review and dispute (45 days): 7/14/2014 – 8/3/2014, 8/14/2014 – 9/10/2014
- Correction period (15 days): 9/11/2014 – 9/25/2014
The date for data publication remains the same, September 30, 2014.
CMS states: For more information about Open Payments, please visit the Open Payments website. If you have any questions, you can submit an email to the Help Desk at openpayments@cms.hhs.gov. Live Help Desk support is available by calling 1-855-326-8366, Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (CT), excluding Federal holidays.