Relocation of Physician-Owned Hospitals: CMS Advisory Insights
By EsqSocial Corporation 07/04/25
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued CMS Advisory Opinion No. CMS-AO-2025-1 on February 26, 2025, blessing the relocation of a physician-owned hospital. The hospital planned to relocate eight miles from its current location and add an emergency department (the Proposed Relocation). The hospital requested a determination from CMS regarding whether the Proposed Relocation would be consistent with the "whole hospital exception" to the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (the...
By: Baker Donelson