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Article: Medicare adopts 2000 Life Safety Code.
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- Same-Day Surgery
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- March 1, 2003
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Medicare adopts 2000 Life Safety Code
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted the fire safety regulations of the 2000 Life Safety Code, updated and published by the Quincy, MA-based National Fire Protection Association. The 2000 code could impose significant new burdens on new or renovated ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), according to the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA) in Alexandria, VA.
However, the 2000 code is considered less onerous that those changes originally proposed by CMS, according to the San Diego-based American Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (AAASC). Existing ASCs already in compliance ...