RevCycle Intelligence July 5, 2022
A new proposed rule aims to create a unique Medicare provider designation to avert rural hospital closures and increase patient access to care.
CMS has proposed a rule to establish a new rural hospital designation that would enable small rural hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to expand access to care and receive Medicare payment for those services.
The rule would establish some rural hospitals as “rural emergency hospitals,” or REHs. The new Medicare provider designation would enable the facilities to deliver continued access to emergency services, as well as observation care and other medical and outpatient services.
CMS is also seeking comment through the proposed rule on allowing REHs to provide low-risk childbirth-related labor and delivery services and...
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