“Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a proposed rule to relieve burden on healthcare providers by removing unnecessary, obsolete or excessively burdensome Medicare compliance requirements for healthcare facilities. Collectively, these updates would save healthcare providers an estimated $1.12 billion annually. Taking into account policies across rules finalized in 2017 and 2018 as well as this and other proposed rules, savings are estimated at $5.2 billion.”
“CMS developed the proposed rule in response to President Trump’s charge to federal agencies to “cut the red tape” and reduce burdensome regulations. In addition, feedback from Requests for Information (RFIs) the agency issued seeking stakeholder input on regulatory burdens helped inform this proposed rule, with particular attention to comments and anecdotal insights from clinicians serving Medicare beneficiaries…”
“Many of the proposals simplify and streamline Medicare’s conditions of participation, conditions for coverage, and other requirements for participation for facilities, so they can meet health and safety standards more efficiently. This proposal ensures continued protection for patient health and safety.”
“A key provision would reduce burden and promote efficiency to support patients who need organ transplants. The rule would eliminate a duplicative requirement on transplant programs to submit data and other information more than once for “re-approval” by Medicare. Re-approval has led to transplant programs avoiding performing transplants for certain patients, causing some organs to go unused. CMS will maintain other requirements in order to continue to monitor outcomes and quality of care in transplant programs after initial Medicare approval…” Read the full notice here.
Source: CMS Proposes to Lift Unnecessary Regulations and Ease Burden on Providers – September 17, 2018. CMS.gov.
