2016-10043: Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Health Care Facilities
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This final rule will amend the fire safety standards for Medicare and Medicaid participating hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF-IID), ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospices which provide inpatient services, religious non-medical health care institutions (RNHCIs), and programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) facilities. Further, this final rule will adopt the 2012 edition of the Life Safety Code (LSC) and eliminate references in our regulations to all earlier editions of the Life Safety Code. It will also adopt the 2012 edition of the Health Care Facilities Code, with some exceptions.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 7 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 42 CFR 403 Special Programs and Projects
- 42 CFR 416 Ambulatory Surgical Services
- 42 CFR 418 Hospice Care
- 42 CFR 460 Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- 42 CFR 482 Conditions of Participation for Hospitals
- 42 CFR 483 Requirements for States and Long Term Care Facilities
- 42 CFR 485 Conditions of Participation: Specialized Providers
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