Today, FAH submitted comprehensive comments to CMS in response to its Request for Information (RFI) on approaches and opportunities to streamline regulations and reduce administrative burdens on providers. The comments urged wide-ranging deregulatory initiatives and focused on key regulatory priorities, such as: 

• Oversight and compliance enforcement for Medicare Advantage plans.
• Elimination of the inpatient rehabilitation facility Review Choice Demonstration.
• Enforcement of the No Surprises Act Independent Dispute Resolution process.
• Rescinding interpretive guidance implying nurse staff ratio requirements.
• Removing premature, low value, and/or outdated hospital quality measures, as well as mandatory reporting for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), along with requiring pre-deployment testing of hospital quality measures and reporting structures.
• Right-sizing CMMI models and halt mandatory approaches.
• Removing CoP requirements for respiratory illness reporting and maternal health, while revising or updating CoPs for and emergency services readiness and life safety codes.
• Streamlining care plan documentation requirements.
• Repealing provider disincentives for information blocking regulations.
• Withdrawing cybersecurity proposed regulations.
• Expanding eligibility for the 340B drug pricing program to tax-paying hospitals.
• Extending telehealth flexibilities.

Read the comment letter here.