CMS releases additional guidance on converting to Rural Emergency Hospital
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released new guidance and FAQs outlining the requirements and process for eligible rural and critical access hospitals interested in converting to a Rural Emergency Hospital, a new Medicare provider type effective Jan. 1. The guidance also includes an appendix with survey procedures and Conditions of Participation regulatory text. The agency expects to release interpretive guidance for REHs in the future.
Related News Articles
Headline
The Health Resources and Services Administration will award grants to rural hospitals and other providers from two areas of its Rural Communities Opioid…
Headline
Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., April 30 introduced the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act, legislation that…
Headline
Applications are now open for the AHA Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award, which recognizes and shares the accomplishments of rural hospitals that…
Blog
In think‑tank reports, like the one released this week by Paragon Health Institute, hospitals are often reduced to abstractions — payment rates, charts,…
Headline
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in…
Headline
The Health Resources and Services Administration April 7 announced it will provide more than $135 million in funding to support nutrition and rural health…