Last year CMS requested public comments about whether it should adopt the 2012 Life Safety Code® instead of the currently required 2000 edition. In its recently-issued final rule regarding revisions to the Conditions of Participation, CMS also addressed those public comments.
In response to the public comments that it received, CMS stated “We appreciate commenters’ suggestions regarding the LSC regulations set out under our ‘Physical environment’ CoP at §482.41. Suggestions received were outside the scope of this final rule and will be considered through separate notice-and-comment rulemaking in a LSC omnibus rule, targeted for publication in the near future.”
The discussion and response are on pages 113-114 of Final Rule CMS-3244-F, RIN 0938-AQ89, entitled “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Reform of Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Conditions of Participation.” This document is available from CMS at http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-11548_PI.pdf.
No comments:
Post a Comment