Omnibus Burden Reduction (Conditions of Participation) Final Rule

On September 26, CMS took action at President Trump’s direction to “cut the red tape,” by reducing unnecessary burden for American’s health care providers allowing them to focus on their priority – patients. The Omnibus Burden Reduction (Conditions of Participation) Final Rule removes Medicare regulations identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on hospitals and other health care providers to reduce inefficiencies and moves the nation closer to a health care system that delivers value, high quality care and better outcomes for patients at the lowest possible cost.

This rule advances the Patients over Paperwork initiative by saving providers an estimated 4.4 million hours of time previously spent on paperwork with an overall total projected savings to providers of $800 million annually.

This rule finalizes the provisions of three proposed rules

• Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction (“Omnibus Burden reduction”), published September 20, 2018
• Hospital and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Changes to Promote Innovation, Flexibility, and Improvement in Patient Care, published June 16, 2016
• Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Dialysis Facilities, published November 4, 2016.

For More Information:

• Final Rule
• Press Release

Press release See the full text of this excerpted CMS Fact Sheet (Issued September 26).