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Save time searching the CMS website for the regulations and interpretations you need. Navigating the CMS website to find accurate Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations is a difficult and confusing task, and printing out hundreds of pages is costly and time-consuming. HCPro has taken the most recent version of CMS Conditions of Participation and the corresponding Interpretive Guidelines and reprinted them in an easy-to-use format. Table of Contents: Preface: Navigating CMS CMS Introduction: Survey Protocol CMS Hospital Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines CMS Hospital EMTALA Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines Available as a download is Appendix V, the document that includes the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) investigative procedures and Interpretive Guidelines. Benefits: - Easy to read hard copy reference of CoPs and IGs, which are difficult to find online and lengthy and tedious to print - Highlighted changes, including major updates made in the past year - A combination of two of our previous books, providing an all-in-one expanded volume - Includes most recent CoP IGs from CMS - Includes most recent EMTALA IGs - Includes CMS survey protocol Among the changes to the CoPs in 2014 are final rules that: - Clarify hospital medical staff composition - Allow registered dietitians to receive hospital privileges to order patient diets - No longer require hospital governing bodies to include medical staff members - Allow practitioners to order hospital outpatient services for their patients