In May 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published changes to the Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals in a final rule entitled "Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction; Part ...
The proposed OB services CoPs would not reference any specific organization's guidelines but would require that all standards set by affected hospitals be based on evidence from nationally recognized sources. The proposed requirements include: Organization and Standards:OB services must be well-organi...
CMS finalized standards for REHs, a new Medicare provider type established by Section 125 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Hospitals may convert to REHs if they were critical access hospitals (CAHs) or rural hospitals with not more than 50 beds participating in Medic...
On June 15, 2022, the Supreme Court held, among other things, that absent a survey of hospitals’ drug acquisition costs, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may not vary the reimbursement rates only for 340B hospitals. Therefore, the court determined that CMS’ 2018 a...
First, CMS waived a number of the hospital “conditions of participation” (or CoPs) including provisions on the “physical environment” hospitals must maintain. Any location still must be consistent with a state’s emergency preparedness or pandemic response plan. Second, CMS used its waiver ...
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The CMS Partnership for Patients Program (PPP) is a group of over 8000 hospitals, representative of health care organizations, state governments, employers, and unions. Partnership for patients is focused on providing safer, more reliable and less costly hospital care. Other organizations such as ...
Hospitals Governing Body: Adds to governing body CoP to require the governing body to directly consult with the individual responsible for the organized medical staff periodically throughout the year regarding the quality of care provided; for multi-hospital systems using a single governing body, the...
Meeting the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services requirements for quality assessment and performance improvement: a model for hospitals. The Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) model seeks to improve the structures and processes of delivering healthcare to gain better outco... LM...
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