The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines (2014 Update)

Navigating the CMS website to find accurate Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations is a difficult and confusing task, and printing out hundreds of pages is costly and time-consuming. HCPro has taken the most recent version of CMS Conditions of Participation and the corresponding Interpretive Guidelines and reprinted them in an easy-to-use format.

Table of Contents:

Preface: Navigating CMS
CMS Introduction: Survey Protocol
CMS Hospital Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines
CMS Hospital EMTALA Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines

Available as a download is Appendix V, the document that includes the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) investigative procedures and Interpretive Guidelines.

Benefits:

- Easy to read hard copy reference of CoPs and IGs, which are difficult to find online and lengthy and tedious to print
- Highlighted changes, including major updates made in the past year
- A combination of two of our previous books, providing an all-in-one expanded volume
- Includes most recent CoP IGs from CMS
- Includes most recent EMTALA IGs
- Includes CMS survey protocol

Among the changes to the CoPs in 2014 are final rules that:

- Clarify hospital medical staff composition
- Allow registered dietitians to receive hospital privileges to order patient diets
- No longer require hospital governing bodies to include medical staff members
- Allow practitioners to order hospital outpatient services for their patients