Below is a list of archived federal regulations with links to CHA’s corresponding actions, including summaries, comment letters, and DataSuite.
Effective January 1, 2022
- CY 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
- CY 2022 Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- CY 2022 End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- CY 2022 Final Notice of Methodological Changes for Medicare Advantage Capitation Rates and Part C and Part D Payment Policies
Effective February 25, 2022
Effective February 28, 2022
Effective June 28, 2022
- Accrediting Organization Ownership Chanhttps://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/04/29/2022-09102/medicare-program-accrediting-organizations-changes-of-ownershipges Final Rule
Effective August 10, 2022
- CLIA Proficiency Testing Regulations Related to Analytes and Acceptable Performance Final Rule (provisions related to moderate complexity testing, high complexity testing that also performs waived testing and proficiency testing enrollment)
Effective October 1, 2022
Effective October 25, 2022
Effective December 23, 2022
Effective January 1, 2021
Effective January 11, 2021
Effective January 13, 2021
- Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records – Investigation or Prosecution of Extremely Serious Crime – Final Rule
Effective January 19, 2021
Effective March 15, 2021
Effective April 5, 2021
- 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program Final Rule (information blocking requirements)
Effective July 2021
Effective July 2, 2021
Effective October 1, 2021
- FFY 2022 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- FFY 2022 Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- FFY 2022 Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- FFY 2022 Skilled-Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- FFY 2022 Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Prospective Payment System Final Rule
- FFY 2022 Hospice Wage Index Final Rule
Effective November 5, 2021
- Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination Interim Final Rule with Comment Period
- HPA Summary
- Comparison Chart: State and Federal Vaccine Mandates
- State and Federal Vaccine Mandate Document (orders, regulations, FAQs)
- COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard Interim Final Rule with Comment Period
Effective November 26, 2021
- Comments on Proposed Changes to CMS 2552-10 Hospital and Health Care Complex Cost Report
- Comments on Proposed Changes to 1135 Waiver Request Process
- Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation (withdrawn Jan. 19, 2021)
- Comments on Food and Drug Administration’s Revised Draft Guidance on Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Software
- Comments on DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Surveys
- Request for Information on the Future of Program Integrity
- Letter to MedPAC on Access to Durable Medical Equipment
- Request for Information: Reducing Administrative Burden To Put Patients Over Paperwork
- Draft Guidance on Co-location
- Draft Revised Ligature Risk Guidance
- OMB Request for Comment: Official Poverty Measure
- Proposed Changes to Overall Hospital Star Ratings Methodology (March 2019)
- Request for Information: Accrediting Organizations Conflict of Interest and Consulting Services (February 2019)
- Request for Information: Modifying HIPAA Rules To Improve Coordinated Care (February 2019)
- Letter to CMS Regarding Concerns with Using Worksheet S-10 Data (January 2019)
- Letter to ONC on Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT and Electronic Health Record Burden (January 2019)
- Letter to CMS on IMPACT Act Beta Test Results (January 2019)
- Letter to FDA Drug Shortages Task Force (November 2018)
- FDA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Aggregate Production Quotas for Schedule I and II Controlled Substances (September 2018) Comment Letter
- Request for Information: Anti-kickback Statute (August 2018)
- Request for Information: Impact of Stark Law (June 2018)
- Request for Information: HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs (May 2018)
- Request for Information on Direct Provider Contracting Models (May 2018)
- Letter to FCC on Funding for Rural Health Care Program (May 2018)
- Request for Information on Revisions to Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Personnel Requirements (March 2018)
- National Quality Forum on Recommended Measures (January 2018)
- Request for Information on New Direction for CMMI (November 2017)
- Enhancements of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings (September 2017)
- Advance Notice of Proposed Rule Making: Revisions to SNF PPS Case -Mix Methodology
- Establishment of Payment Provisions and Requirements for Qualified Practitioners and Qualified Suppliers of Prosthetics and Custom-Fabricated Orthotics
- Letter to HHS: Geographic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation (August 2016)
- OIG Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (July 2012)
- Actuarial Value and Cost-sharing Reductions (February 2012)
- Standards Related to Essential Health Benefits, Actuarial Value, and Accreditation (February 2012)
- State Flexibility to Establish a Basic Health Plan Request for Information (October 2011)
- FDA Guidance on Insanitary Compounding (October 2016)
- CMS RFI Certification of eCQMs (January 2016)
- Data Metrics and Alternative Processes for Access to Care in the Medicaid Program Request for Information and Final Rule (October 2015)
- CMS RFI on MACRA Physician Payment Provisions (September 2015)
- HRSA 340b Omnibus Proposed Guidance (Final Guidance Withdrawn) (August 2015)
- OMHA RFI on Workload Backlog Pilot Programs (November 2014)
- CMMI RFI on Health Plan Innovation (October 2014)
- NOTICE ACT – MOON Notice (August 2016)
- Quality Rating System for Qualified Health Plans Notice (December 2013)
- Pre-Rule Making Comments Regarding Medicare DSH Provisions under the ACA (January 3013)
- Request for Information Regarding Health Care Quality for Exchanges (January 2013)
- Request for Information on Hospital Readiness to Electronically Report Quality Measures (January 2013)
- CMS and ONC Request for Information Regarding Interoperability and Electronic Health Information Exchange (March 2013)
- SEC Registration of Municipal Advisors (March 2011)
- Patient Notification of Right To Access State Survey Agencies and Medicare Beneficiary Notification of the Right To Access Quality Improvement Organizations (April 2011) (finalized in CY 2012 OPPS Final Rule)
- EPA Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals (December 2015)
- EPA Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements (December 2015)
- HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures (August 2011)