[List] CMS Seeks volunteers for demo.

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    CMS SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR DEMONSTRATION

   Physical therapists and other health care professionals are being  
asked to volunteer for a 2008 demonstration project designed to  
generate recommendations for improving Centers for Medicare and  
Medicaid Services payment models  
(www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/press/release.asp?Counter=2406&intNumPerPage=10&checkDate=&checkKey=&srchType=1&numDays=3500&srchOpt=0&srchData=&srchOpt=0&srchData=&keywordType=All&chkNewsType=1%2C+2%2C+3%2C+4%2C+5&intPage=&showAll=&pYear=&year=&desc=&cboOrder=date). Eligible providers include acute-care hospitals and post-acute-care settings, such as long-term-care hospitals (LTCHs), inpatient-rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs), and home-health agencies (HHAs). CMS plans to use the proposed Medicare Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) Instrument in the demonstration(www.cms.hhs.gov/PaperworkReductionActof1995/PRAL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=descending&itemID=CMS1201543&intNumPerPage=10). The agency will collect data from providers in 10 parts of the country to recruit a sample that is representative of the spectrum of post-acute service providers. Providers interested in participating should contact Barbara Gage, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at the RTI research institute by emailing pat-comments at rti.org. Final selections will be made in fall  
2007.
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