If the language above were to be finalized, ASCA anticipates that the sub-regulatory guidance for ASCs, found in State Operations Manual Appendix L, would most likely also be changed. It currently states:
“However, an ASC and a hospital or CAH outpatient surgery department, including a provider-based department that is either on or off the hospital’s or CAH’s main campus, may not share the same physical space, since the regulations at 42 CFR 413.65(d)(4) require that the provider-based department be held out to the public as a part of the main hospital, and that patients entering the provider-based facility are aware that they are entering the hospital.”
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