Proposed Rule: Medicare & Medicaid Programs; Revisions To Requirements For Discharge Planning For Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, & Home Health Agencies

This document is a proposed rule released on November 3, 2015 by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The proposed rule would revise discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The proposed rule implements the discharge planning requirements of the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 . . .