Interpretive Guidelines: HCFA Hospital
Condition of Participation: Patients' Rights
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Date: June 9, 2000 DSL-BQA 00-043
To: Hospitals HOSP 18
From: Otis Woods, Chief, Health Services Section
via: Susan Schroeder, Director, Bureau of Quality Assurance
Attached is a copy of the HCFA
Interpretive Guidelines for the Condition of Participation: Patients’
Rights (exit DHS). This
regulation, found in the Code of Federal
Regulations (exit DHS) at 42 CFR 482.13, became effective for hospitals participating in the
Medicare program, excluding Critical Access Hospitals, on August 2, 1999. A copy of the
regulation with a discussion of Wisconsin law pertaining to "independent licensed
practitioners" was sent to Wisconsin hospitals in DSL-BQA-99-063,
dated October 15, 1999.
The Interpretive Guidelines currently being sent to you provide guidance to hospital
surveyors in the implementation of 42 CFR, Part 482, and are effective June 18, 2000.
Questions may be directed to Otis Woods, Chief, Health Services Section (replaced by
Cremear Mims) or to Helen Brewster, ACSW, CICSW, at
(608) 243-2089.
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