The American Hospital Association submitted a letter to CMS urging the agency to consider additional revisions to its proposed Medicare and Medicaid Conditions of Participation, which were released in October, according to an AHA News Now report.
While the AHA said it is pleased with changes that remove "antiquated regulatory burdens" from the conditions of participation governing acute-care and critical access hospitals, the group urged CMS to consider additional changes. Examples include clarifying the language that eliminates the need for every hospital in a system to have its own governing body and revising language to make clear that multi-hospital systems may have a single medical staff. The AHA also asked CMS to expand the types of practitioners who may oversee medical staff to include doctors of podiatry.
While the AHA said it is pleased with changes that remove "antiquated regulatory burdens" from the conditions of participation governing acute-care and critical access hospitals, the group urged CMS to consider additional changes. Examples include clarifying the language that eliminates the need for every hospital in a system to have its own governing body and revising language to make clear that multi-hospital systems may have a single medical staff. The AHA also asked CMS to expand the types of practitioners who may oversee medical staff to include doctors of podiatry.