Open Payments: Physician and Teaching Hospital Review and Dispute Period Began April 1

Review and dispute for Open Payments data began April 1 and will last for 45 days. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will publish the 2015 payment data and updates to the 2013 and 2014 data on June 30, 2016.

Physicians and teaching hospitals must initiate any disputes during the review period. Review and dispute is voluntary but strongly encouraged. If you have never registered in the Open Payments system, initial registration is a two-step process and should only take 30 minutes. See the Open Payments Registration webpage for more information.

If you registered last year in the CMS Enterprise Portal, you do not need to reregister:

• If you accessed your account within the last 60 days, log in using your user ID and password, and navigate to the Open Payments system home page
• If you have not accessed your account within the last 60 days, enter your user ID and correctly answer all challenge questions; you will then be prompted to enter a new password
• If you have not accessed the system in over 180 days, contact the help desk to reinstate your account

For More Information:

• Register for the MLN Connects National Provider Call on April 12
• Contact the Help Desk at openpayments@cms.hhs.gov or 855-326-8366, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm ET