Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Regulations,
Regulatory Developments
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released
a draft guidance for state survey agencies on
May 3, 2019, impacting hospitals that share space, staff, and/or
services with another co-located hospital or health care entity.
The draft builds on informally followed principles by CMS employees
which emphasized that certain payment rules, like those for
hospitals-within-hospitals, should not override the requirement
that every co-located hospital must independently meet Medicare
hospital conditions of participation. The final guidance, when
released, will provide an authoritative guidance for hospitals with
co-location arrangements and result in greater consistency.
