Topic: CMS issues revised interpretive guidelines relating to Hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs)
HIM Connection, February 19, 2008
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On February 8, CMS issued revised interpretive guidelines reflecting the most recent changes to the CoPs on history and physical examinations, authentication of verbal orders, securing medications, and post-anesthesia evaluations. The revised interpretive guidelines also reflect related changes made in the 2008 hospital outpatient prospective payment system final rule.
View the revised interpretative guidelines.
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