Relevant Policies/Memos to States:

Relevant Final Rulings:

CMS-1390-F  {QPU}  (PDF)  8/19/08- Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2009 Rates

• Medicare Program; Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2009 Rates; Payments for Graduate Medical Education in Certain Emergency Situations; Changes to Disclosure of Physician Ownership in Hospitals and Physician Self-Referral Rules; Updates to the Long-Term Care Prospective Payment System; Updates to Certain IPPS-Excluded Hospitals; and Collection of Information Regarding Financial Relationships Between Hospitals

CMS-3018-F  {QPU}  (PDF)  12/8/06  [SHCCinfo] - Hospital Conditions of Participation: Patient's Rights (including S&R)

• This final rule finalizes the Patients' Rights Condition of Participation which is applicable to all Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals and contains standards that ensure minimum protections of each patient's physical and emotional health and safety.
• CMS3018summary.pdf

CMS-3122-F  {QPU}  (PDF) 11/27/06  [SHCC Info] - Hospital Conditions of Participation: Requirements for History and Physical Examinations; Authentication of Verbal Orders; Securing Medications…

• In this rule, we finalize changes to four of the current requirements (or conditions of participation (CoPs)) that hospitals must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Specifically, this final rule revises and updates our CoP requirements for: Completion of the history and physical examination in the medical staff and the medical record services CoPs
• Summary/Synopsis of Changes (rf).

CMS-4105-F  {QPU}  (PDF)  11/27/06  11/27/06  [SHCCinfo ] - Notification Procedures for Hospital Discharges

• This final rule sets forth requirements for how hospitals must notify Medicare beneficiaries who are hospital inpatients about their hospital discharge rights. Notice is required both for original Medicare beneficiaries and for beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage....

Other:

• Synopsis of SOM Appendix A: COP Changes – November 27, 2006 Medicare News