The agency proposes a host of changes to the revised Medicare Requirements for Participation (“Requirements for Participation”) that it promulgated in 2016 and an extension of the ...

The rule amends certain coverage and documentation requirements, as discussed below. In an effort to reduce medical record documentation that it believes is no longer necessary, CMS has removed ...

Federal funds will be used then to “address any gaps” in implementing requirements under the Medicare Conditions of Participation, said CMS. Funds will be used, says CMS, to enforce the ...

Industry leaders expect increased federal ... and even a “lack of awareness” of federal requirements. The report also noted that CMS has publicly available training focusing on emergency ...

CHICAGO — If nursing home leaders ... repeatedly told CMS that providers are trying to “discharge patients they can’t care for.” In 2022, CMS added language to its Requirements of ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' federal maternal health requirements may be open ... perinatal clinicians and public health leaders. The California Maternal Quality Care ...

CMS issued the final version of its ... a postprocedure intensive care facility and appropriate volume requirements; and participation by the heart team and hospital in a national audited registry ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, on a webinar Thursday, laid out IT requirements for practices and vendors looking to participate in the agency's Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+ ...

CMS also removed specialty measures with zero cases from attestation requirements for surgery centers and will now verify case counts using claims data to determine specialty measures for individual ...