As urged by the AHA, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will make a one-time adjustment to the 96-hour average annual patient length-of-stay requirement for critical access hospitals in the Medicare program to account for its blanket waiver of the requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency announced today. The agency has instructed Medicare Administrative Contractors to resume calculating the 96-hour average with the first cost reporting period starting after the end of the PHE.

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