| Subject: | CMS Releases Revised Conditions of Participation for Hospices |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 - 06:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released revised Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP), in the first overall of the regulations since 1983. The new CoPs include explicit language on patient rights that had not existed under the previous regulations; the Final Rule is effective December 2, 2008. Specifically, the rule says, patients who choose hospice, or palliative care, over curative treatment are entitled to such things as participation in their treatment... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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