NATIONAL MEDICARE ADVOCATES ALLIANCE
CALL AGENDA
Monday, June 11, 2012– 2:00 P.M., Eastern Time
Call-in Number: 1 (888) 206-2266
Pass Code: 1050263#
NOTE: We ask people calling from the same location to gather around one telephone. This frees up lines and holds down costs.
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- Welcome and Housekeeping (Alfred J. Chiplin, CMA, Moderator)
- Presentation: Rehospitalization: Issues, Trends, and Advocacy (Toby S. Edelman, Senior Policy Attorney, CMA)
- Face-to-Face Update: What’s New (Alfred J. Chiplin, Senior Policy Attorney, CMA)
- Litigation Update (Gill Deford, CMA)
- Affordable Care Act challenges in Supreme Court
- Jimmo (Improvement)
- Bagnall (Observation) [Ali Bers, CMA]
- Other litigation
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospitals and the Three-Hour Rule (of Thumb)
- General Medicare Q&A* (Moderator)
- Wrap-up (Moderator)
- Issue Briefs on Center’s Website
- Searchable Database
- Next Call
REMINDER: The Center for Medicare Advocacy’s on-line Medicare Decision database and other information are available at:
- https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/ALJDecisions/ALJSearch.asp.
- https://www.medicareadvocacy.org/Projects/AdvocatesAlliance/AdvocatesAlliance.IssueBriefs.htm.