AAFP reaches out with feline health information
Burns, K.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 237(9): 995-996
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 21090142 Document Number: 638999
This final rule will revise the Medicare conditions of participation for hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to provide visitation rights to Medicare and Medicaid patients. Specifically, Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals and CAHs will be required to have written policies and procedures regarding the visitation rights of patients, including those setting forth any clinically necessary or reasonable restriction or limitation that the hospital or CAH may need to place on such rights as well as the reasons for the clinical restriction or limitation.