The Cms Hospital Conditions Of Participation And Interpretive Guidelines PDF Download

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. ... 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.