Notice2025-07294
Medicare Program; Announcement of Request for an Exception From the Prohibition on Expansion of Facility Capacity Under the Hospital Ownership and Rural Provider Exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Prohibition; Recission
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Published
April 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Abstract
This document rescinds a notice with request for comment that appeared in the Federal Register on February 11, 2025, regarding a request from a hospital with physician ownership for an exception to the physician self-referral law's prohibition against expansion of facility capacity. The purpose of the notice was to solicit comments on the request from individuals and entities in the community in which the hospital is located.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 80 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 17601]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07294]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
[CMS-1838-N]
Medicare Program; Announcement of Request for an Exception From
the Prohibition on Expansion of Facility Capacity Under the Hospital
Ownership and Rural Provider Exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral
Prohibition; Recission
AGENCY: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HHS.
ACTION: Rescission of notice with request for comment.
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SUMMARY: This document rescinds a notice with request for comment that
appeared in the Federal Register on February 11, 2025, regarding a
request from a hospital with physician ownership for an exception to
the physician self-referral law's prohibition against expansion of
facility capacity. The purpose of the notice was to solicit comments on
the request from individuals and entities in the community in which the
hospital is located.
DATES: As of April 28, 2025, the notice with a request for comment that
appeared in the Federal Register on February 11, 2025, at 90 FR 9343 is
rescinded.
ADDRESSES: Comments received on the notice with request for comment can
be viewed at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/search/docket?filter=cms-2025-0016">https://www.regulations.gov/search/docket?filter=cms-2025-0016</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#42120d0a6f073a212732362b2d2c102733372731363102212f316c2a2a316c252d34"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0757484f2a427f646277736e6869556276726274737447646a74296f6f7429606871">[email protected]</span></a>. Joi
Hosley, (410) 786-2194.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 11, 2025, we published a notice
with request for comment that (1) provided notice that Mountain View
Hospital (``Hospital''), a hospital with physician ownership located in
Idaho Falls, Idaho, has requested an exception from the prohibition on
facility expansion at 42 CFR 411.362(b)(2) (``expansion exception
request''); and (2) solicited comments on the expansion exception
request from individuals and entities in the community in which
Hospital is located. After the notice with request for comment was
published, Hospital withdrew its expansion exception request.
Therefore, we are rescinding the February 11, 2025 notice with request
for comment.
The Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS), Mehmet Oz, having reviewed and approved this document,
authorizes Vanessa Garcia, who is the Federal Register Liaison, to
electronically sign this document for purposes of publication in the
Federal Register.
Vanessa Garcia,
Federal Register Liaison, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
[FR Doc. 2025-07294 Filed 4-25-25; 8:45 am]
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