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... By means of a final rule (Federal Register, April 4, 2008), CMS is modernizing the Medicare conditions for coverage for the nation's dialysis centers.(FEDERAL REGISTER)(Brief article)
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Healthcare Financial Management
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May 1, 2008
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... By means of a final rule (Federal Register, April 4, 2008), CMS is modernizing the Medicare conditions for coverage for the nation's dialysis centers. The regulation updates the current requirements that were first published in 1976.
These regulations will serve as minimum standards that dialysis facilities must meet to be certified under the Medicare program.
Each facility is required to develop a quality assessment and performance improvement program that would track the facility's performance in patient health outcomes.
Among other requirements, the rule also adopts updated Centers for Disease Prevention and Control guidelines for hemodialysis facilities to ...