Medical facility construction and modernization; requirements for provision of services to persons unable to pay--PHS. Proposed rules.
This notice proposes revisions to the rules currently governing how health care facilities assisted under Titles VI and XVI of the Public Health Service Act fulfill the assurance, given in their application for assistance, that they would provide a reasonable volume of services to persons unable to pay. Comment on the current rules and operational experience with them have indicated the need to revise the current requirements as they pertain to publicly owned facilities.
D005380:Financing, Government / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008489:Medical Indigency; D014481:United States; D014492:United States Public Health Service