- Title
- Requirement to Provide Medicare Beneficiaries Notice of Their Rights, Including Discharge Appeal
- Memo #
- 07-28 (revised)
- Posting Date
- 07/13/2007
- Fiscal Year
- 2007
- Summary
- The final rule governing beneficiary notification of their discharge appeal rights, published on November 27, 2006, requires updated enforcement guidance, effective July 2, 2007. For hospitals, enforcement of the new notice requirements falls under the Patients' Rights Condition of Participation (CoP) at 42 CFR 482.13. For critical access hospitals, enforcement of the new notice requirements falls under the Compliance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations CoP at 42 CFR 485.608(a).
