“Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking action at President Trump’s direction to “cut the red tape,” bringing relief to America’s healthcare providers by reducing unnecessary burden, allowing them to focus on their top priority – patients. The Omnibus Burden Reduction (Conditions of Participation) Final Rule strengthens patient safety by removing unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome health regulations on hospitals and other healthcare providers. This rule advances CMS’s Patients over Paperwork initiative by saving providers an estimated 4.4 million hours previously spent on paperwork annually, with overall total provider savings projected to be approximately $8 billion over the next 10 years, giving doctors more time to spend with their patients…”
“CMS is focused on making sure patients get safe, high quality care and time with their healthcare providers. As such, CMS conducted a comprehensive review of regulations to determine where changes to obsolete, duplicative, or unnecessary requirements could be made to improve healthcare delivery. The agency is finalizing changes that streamline and improve regulations to provide greater focus on patient safety and improve quality of care. CMS performed this work from three perspectives: improving patient care, eliminating burdensome rules, and eliminating duplicative regulations…” Read the full press release here.
Source: Trump Administration Puts Patients Over Paperwork by Reducing Healthcare Administrative Costs – September 26, 2019. CMS.
