The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published its new conditions of participation for transplant centers. The final rule, effective June 28, 2007, announces new requirements to which hospitals must conform when applying for Medicare certification of their renal and extra-renal transplant center programs.
Effective immediately, an extra-renal transplant center that seeks to participate in and receive payment from the Medicare program and has not yet filed an application for Medicare payment approval is required to apply under the criteria included in the final rule. CMS will no longer accept extra-renal transplant center applications under the National Coverage Decisions process (because there may be insufficient time to approve the application prior to the effective date of the final rule). However, it will continue processing applications already in progress. CMS will also continue to accept letter applications from pediatric centers that seek Medicare payment approval based on their association with a Medicare-approved adult transplant center, provided that those applications are received by June 22, 2007. Download the final rule.
