2018-27506: Medicare Program: Accrediting Organizations Conflict of Interest and Consulting Services; Request for Information
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This request for information (RFI) seeks public comment regarding the appropriateness of the practices of some Medicare- approved Accrediting Organizations (AOs) to provide fee-based consultative services for Medicare-participating providers and suppliers as part of their business model. We wish to determine whether AO practices of consulting with the same facilities which they accredit under their CMS approval could create actual or perceived conflicts of interest between the accreditation and consultative entities. We intend to consider information received in response to this RFI to assist in future rulemaking.
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Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
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