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Countdown Underway for Current Medicare-Approved Organ Transplant Centers to Request Certification under the New Rule

All hospital transplant centers currently approved for Medicare participation (approved either under the end stage renal disease (ESRD) Conditions of Coverage or the National Coverage Decisions) must submit a request for new approval under the Conditions of Participation established by the new regulation that was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on March 30, 2007. Your request must be submitted to CMS by December 26, 2007 (180 days from the effective date of the regulation).

Please Note: If an Organ Transplant Center does not submit a request for approval under the new Conditions of Participation by December 26, 2007, CMS will conclude that the center no longer desires Medicare participation and will begin the process to withdraw Medicare approval.

There is no application form. Transplant centers must send a request (e.g., a letter) to CMS with specific information. For a list of all transplant centers covered by the regulation and a listing of the minimum information that must be included in all requests to CMS for approval of your transplant center, please visit our transplant Web page at: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/CertificationandComplianc/20_Transplant.aspexternal.

Transplant centers desiring first time Medicare certification must send a request to CMS with the same information. This can be done any time the center is ready for initial Medicare certification.
If you have any questions concerning the approval requests, timelines for the regulation, the information that must be submitted with the approval request, or the survey and certification process, please direct your inquiries to Sherry Clark in the Survey and Certification Group at CMS at (410) 786-8476.

Posted: 12/07/2007
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