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Medicare Program: Appeal Rights for Certain Changes in Patient Status
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this final rule in the Federal Register on October 15, 2024. It took effect on October 11, 2024.
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What the agency says
This final rule implements an order from the Federal district court for the District of Connecticut in Alexander v. Azar that requires HHS to establish appeals processes for certain Medicare beneficiaries who are initially admitted as hospital inpatients but are subsequently reclassified as outpatients receiving observation services during their hospital stay and meet other eligibility criteria.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-23195
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- October 15, 2024
- Takes effect
- October 11, 2024
- Dates
- These regulations are effective on October 11, 2024.
- Docket
- CMS-4204-F
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV16
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 405; 42 CFR 476; 42 CFR 489
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Diseases; Grant programs-health; Health care; Health facilities; Health professions; Health records; Medical devices; Medicare; Peer Review Organizations (PRO); Penalties; Privacy; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Rural areas; X-rays
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 55
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