The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new rule to limit the ability of your Critical Access Hospital to operate off-site provider based facilities. The NRHA is very concerned that this proposal would ban "necessary provider" Critical Access Hospitals from operating any offsite facilities and placing a severe and undue burden on all other Critical Access Hospitals from operating provider based facilities.
The new rule is significant since it not only provides clarification of existing provider-based regulations, but also appears to implement new requirements not previously addressed in existing regulations or otherwise.
Your Critical Access Hospital is considered to be a hospital within the provider-based rule (PBR). In this webinar, the overall purpose and function of the provider-based rule is addressed as well as critical information concerning physician supervisory changes. While CMS claims these are not changes, but simply clarification, hospitals must take appropriate action to maintain compliance. Additionally, the overall compliance issues surrounding provider-based status will also be discussed in the context of conducting an audit.
If the new interpretations are not changes, then will the RACs be able to apply the clarified interpretations back to October 1, 2007?
The Mississipp Hospital Association is hosting a LIVE Webinar at 1 p.m. CST on Thursday, October 15, 2009, on this topic. Learn more
here. Register online
here. For more information, contact Diane Clift at (800) 289-8884, (601) 368-3217 or
dclift@mhanet.org.