tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 16

PHYSICIANS: CoP Out Or Compassion? CMS Wants To Rein In Regs

Proposed rule will allow docs to focus more time on patients.If you're a physician who feels she's spending too much time worrying about her compliance with Medicare's hospital conditions of participation (CoPs), good news may be coming down the pike.Medicare published a proposed rule on March 24 that revised CoP requirements to provide docs with "greater flexibility in meeting the needs of patients and to reduce unnecessary regulatory burden," according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services press release.The proposed changes are:  Expand the history and physical (H&P) completion time frame and the...

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