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Matthew J. Murer
Practice Area Chair
Randal L. Schultz
Practice Area Vice-Chair
Alan K. Parver
Practice Area Vice-Chair
Janice A. Anderson
Douglas K. Anning
Cynthia E. Berry
Mary Beth Blake
Tina M. Boschert
Gerald W. Brenneman
Teresa A. Brooks
Jared O. Brooner
Anne M. Cooper
Fredric J. Entin
Kara M. Friedman
Rebecca L. Frigy
Randy S. Gerber
Jay M. Howard
George Jackson, III
Joan B. Killgore
Jason T. Lundy
Patrick J. Martinez
Jane K. McCahill
Edward F. Novak
Thomas P. O'Donnell
Daniel S. Reinberg
Charles P. Sheets
Heidi R. Slaw
Kathryn M. Stalmack
Leah Mendelsohn Stone
Chad C. Stout
Steven K. Stranne
Emily C. Tremmel
Andrew B. Turk
Kimela R. West
Christopher K. Wilson
Mark R. Woodbury
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December 2010 |
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A Polsinelli Shughart Health Care Update: |
CMS Finalizes Rules Requiring Equal Visitation Rights For Hospital Patients |
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On November 17, 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule on hospital visitation that allows patients to designate their own visitors during a hospital stay (the Rule). The Rule, which will apply to any hospital that participates in Medicare or Medicaid, will go into effect January 16, 2011, approximately 60 days from when it is published in the Federal Register. The Rule will trump previous practices in many American hospitals that restricted visitors for some patients to spouses and immediate family –even in emergency rooms and intensive care units. The Rule creates a new right that applies to visitors in hospitals and will create new liabilities for hospitals that fail to safeguard the rights that a patient has to visitors under the Rule.
What You Need To Do Now
It is imperative that hospitals develop visitation policies and procedures if they do not have them, or review and revise existing policies and procedures if they do, before the Rule’s effective date of January 16, 2011. In doing so, hospitals need to evaluate and identify explicitly those clinically reasonable reasons to allow the hospital to restrict visitation under the Rule and also will likely need to change admission and advanced directive procedures to address the new requirements of the Rule.
For More Information
For more information about CMS rules requiring equal visitation rights for hospital patients click here.
If you have questions or need additional information about the requirements imposed on hospitals related to the rights of patients to have visitors, please contact:
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About Polsinelli Shughart PC
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