tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 39

Hospitals: ER Admissions Staff Won't Have To Double As INS

CMS finally agrees: Immigration and emergency care don't mixThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has changed its tune on a July proposal that would have required hospitals to collect additional immigration information from undocumented aliens.The good news: Hospitals won't have to grill patients who come through your emergency room doors. But will hospitals still get their share of the $1 billion reform-bill fund as promised?In an Oct. 1 letter to the American Hospital Association, CMS Administrator Mark McClellan said that CMS had taken note of the "public health implications" raised by numerous hospitals in the comment...

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