General Question for the Week of October 1, 2018

Question:

What is the point of the latest proposed rule from CMS that lifts what it calls “unnecessary” regulations?

Answer:

According to an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the primary points of the proposed rule are to “relieve the burden on healthcare providers by removing unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome Medicare compliance requirements for health care facilities.” The proposed rules includes potential changes for:

Conditions of participation and conditions for coverage
Emergency Preparedness policies
Hospitals
Critical access hospital, rural health centers, and federally qualified health centers
Ambulatory surgical centers
Transplant centers
Hospices
Comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facilities
Community mental health centers
Portable x-ray services
Religious nonmedical health care institutions

The proposed rule can be found at https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-19599.pdf.

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