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An Invitation to Join the CMS' Medical Officer in the Center for Medicare (CM)

to Discuss New Efforts to Improve Care for Medicare Beneficiaries

Please join us on May18th, 2011 for a conference call with the Centers for

Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medical Officer and Advisor in the Center for

Medicare, to discuss proposed new rules to help doctors, hospitals, and other

health care providers offer better coordinated care for Medicare patients

through Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). This call is intended to help

the public understand what CMS, the agency administering the ACO program, is

proposing to do and to ensure that the public understands how to participate in

the formal comment process.

WHO: Dr Terri L. Postma, Medical Officer/Advisor, Center for Medicare

And

T. Hammarlund, Regional Administrator, CMS

WHEN: Wednesday, May 18th, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm EDT

DIAL:

CONFERENCE ID: 5320738

Note: Please feel free to distribute the dial in information as broadly as

possible to the leaders and members of your networks.

Please click on the following link to Register

http://www.fedmeetings.net/common/registration.cfm?mid=3787

Instructions for submitting comments:

· Formal comments on the proposed rule will be accepted up until Monday,

June 6, 2011. CMS will respond to all comments in a final rule to be issued

later this year.

· In commenting, please refer to file code CMS-1345-P. Because of staff

and resource limitations, we cannot accept comments by facsimile (FAX)

transmission. You may submit comments in one of four ways:

o Electronically. You may submit electronic comments on this regulation to

CMS-1345-P 2 http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the " Submit a comment "

instructions.

o By regular mail. You may mail written comments to the following address

ONLY:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,

Department of Health and Human Services,

Attention: CMS-1345-P,

P.O. Box 8013,

Baltimore, MD 21244-8013.

Please allow sufficient time for mailed comments to be received before the close

of the comment period.

o By express or overnight mail. You may send written comments to the following

address ONLY:

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,

Department of Health and Human Services,

Attention: CMS-1345-P,

Mail Stop C4-26-05,

7500 Security Boulevard,

Baltimore, MD 21244-1850.

o By hand or courier. If you prefer, you may deliver (by hand or courier) your

written comments before the close of the comment period to either of the

following addresses:

o For delivery in Washington, DC--

CMS-1345-P 3

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,

Department of Health and Human Services,

Room 445-G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building,

200 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20201

(Because access to the interior of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building is not

readily available to persons without Federal government identification,

commenters are encouraged to leave their comments in the CMS drop slots located

in the main lobby of the building. A stamp-in clock is available for persons

wishing to retain a proof of filing by stamping in and retaining an extra copy

of the comments being filed.)

o For delivery in Baltimore, MD--

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,

Department of Health and Human Services,

7500 Security Boulevard,

Baltimore, MD 21244-1850.

If you intend to deliver your comments to the Baltimore address, please call

telephone number in advance to schedule your arrival with one of

our staff members. Comments mailed to the addresses indicated as appropriate

for hand or courier delivery may be delayed and received after the comment

period.

· All comments received before the close of the comment period are

available for viewing by the public, including any personally identifiable or

confidential business information that is included in a comment. We post all

comments received before the close of the comment period on the following Web

site as soon as possible after they have been received:

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the search instructions on that Web site to

view public comments. Comments received timely will also be available for

public inspection as they are received, generally beginning approximately 3

weeks after publication of a document, at the headquarters of the Centers for

Medicare & Medicaid Services, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, land

21244, Monday through Friday of each week from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. To schedule

an appointment to view public comments, phone 1-.

· The proposed rule and joint CMS/OIG notice are posted at:

www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx<http://www.ofr.gov/inspection.aspx>.

· For more information, read the fact sheet at

www.HealthCare.gov/news/factsheets/accountablecare03312011a.html<http://www.Heal\

thCare.gov/news/factsheets/accountablecare03312011a.html>.