Conditions of Participation
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw the condition of participation that hospitals report daily COVID-19 data.
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CMS Interim Final Rule Makes Hospital COVID-19 Reporting a Condition of Participation and Enforces New Testing Requirements, Among Other Changes
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued an interim final rule that, among other provisions, makes collecting and reporting COVID-19 data a condition of participation (CoP) for hospitals that participate in Medicare.
AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to release long-awaited guidance to help hospitals and health systems interpret Medicare’s conditions of participation, or develop alternative approaches to keep them informed and updated about compliance.
Today's announcement provides some much-needed regulatory relief for an overburdened health care system. But CMS misses some important opportunities to further modernize the rules to better reflect how care is organized and delivered today.
We applaud CMS for addressing concerns heard from America's hospitals. The proposed new conditions of participation better recognize how care is delivered today. They eliminate unnecessary paperwork, allowing nurses more time at the bedside.