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Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule
APIC response to the CMS Proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule, Fiscal Year 2009 (6-11-08)
CMS Proposed Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Rule, Fiscal Year 2009, as published in the Federal Register (4-30-08)
APIC response to the CMS Proposed Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2007 (6-11-07)


Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Rule
APIC response to the CMS Proposed Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS) and Calendar Year 2009 rates (9-2-08)
CMS Proposed Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment Systems (OPPS) as printed in the Federal Register (7-18-08)


Conditions of Participation (CoPS)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services develops Conditions of Participation (CoPs) that health care organizations must meet in order to begin and continue participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. These minimum health and safety standards have been developed to further improve patient quality and safety. The CoPs are the minimum standards that must be met in order to be Medicare and Medicaid certified. 

Advance copy of the CMS Interpretive Guidelines

The final guidelines and survey procedures have been reorganized and in a letter to CMS surveyors, these guidelines became effective November 21, 2007. Click here to access the document.

Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) and Present on Admission (POA) Indicator

CMS Overview on Hospital-Acquired Conditions and Present on Admission (POA) Indicator Reporting

Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) Fact Sheet