Contact Information

Contact Information

CMS Help Desk

For all questions related to recording data on the IRF patient assessment instrument (IRF-PAI), email iqies@cms.hhs.gov.

 

For all questions related to the IRF grouper, email IRFgrouper@cms.hhs.gov

Helpdesk Resources for IRF Providers (2013)

Contact IRF.Questions@cms.hhs.gov

If you have questions about Quality Reporting Program & Quality Reporting Items such as:

  • Pressure ulcer coding
  • Pressure ulcer staging
  • Wounds
  • General quality reporting questions
  • Other quality measures (as released)

 

Contact iqies@cms.hhs.gov 

If you have questions about IRF-PAI data completion, submission, or validation such as:

  • Accessing QIES (username and password)
  • Completing the clinical items on the IRF-PAI  (for non-quality related sections)
  • Data/record submissions
  • Submission/validation reports
  • CASPER reports

 

Contact IRFCoverage@cms.hhs.gov

If you have questions about the IRF Coverage Requirements or Medicare payment policies such as:

  • Admission requirements
  • Documentation Requirements
  • Therapy time requirements
  • IRF Medicare reimbursement
  • Claims/Billing

 

Contact NHSN@cdc.gov

If you have questions about the CDC or NHSN, such as:

  • Centers for Disease  Control (CDC) quality measures, such as Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
  • National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) enrollment and reporting

 

Contact IRFQRPReconsiderations@cms.hhs.gov

If you have questions about the IRF Quality Reporting Program Reconsideration Process, such as:

  • How to file a Request for Reconsideration if you receive a letter of non-compliance from CMS for the IRF Quality Reporting Program
  • What is the deadline for filing a Request for Reconsideration?
  • How to dispute a finding of non-compliance with the ACA 3004 IRF QRP reporting requirements that can lead to about a 2% payment reduction.
  • Requesting information about the ACA 3004 IRF Quality Reporting Program payment reduction  for failure to report required quality data

Helpdesk Resources for IRF Vendors

Contact iqies@cms.hhs.gov

If you have questions about Vendor Issues, such as:

  • IRF-PAI data specifications
  • VUT (vendor tool to ensure software meets CMS requirements and will pass ASAP edits)
  • Technical questions related to IRF-PAI data specifications

Toll-Free Customer Service for IRF billing/payment questions

See link below to the Medicare Learning Network.  A document on that page provides toll-free customer service numbers for the fiscal intermediaries and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). 

 

IRF PPS Listserv

See link below to sign up to receive information from the IRF PPS Listserv.

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