CMS Issues Cutting Administrative Requirements For Excellence In Patient Care Proposed Rule

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued the Cutting Administrative Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care proposed rule. The CARE proposed rule revises the Conditions of Participation, Conditions for Coverage and Requirements for Participation for Medicare and Medicaid participating providers and suppliers.

According to CMS, the rule will “reduce costs, increase transparency, enhance flexibility for providers to deliver innovative patient care and streamline regulations.” The proposed rule would affect hospitals, critical access hospitals, long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities and rural emergency hospitals.

Within the rule, CMS is soliciting comments about minimizing burden for hospitals and CAHs to comply with ongoing respiratory illness and public health emergency infectious illness data reporting requirements, expanding the scope of practice of physician assistants and nurse practitioners providing care in LTC facilities, and allowing LTC facility residents to opt out of having a discharge notice sent to the state ombudsman office.

The Missouri Hospital Association will soon publish an issue brief with additional details.