Hospitals: regulatory and accreditation changes
This page collects dated changes that name hospitals, critical access hospitals or rural emergency hospitals: Federal Register rules and corrections, CMS survey memos, and CMS newsletter items. Each entry quotes or reports one sentence from the source, links to it, and adds the effective date or comment deadline when the source states one. IHS works with hospital programs on accreditation readiness, certification projects such as stroke and chest pain programs, and conversions such as rural emergency hospital status. These items are part of the record IHS reads daily. The entries report what was published; they are not advice, and the linked source is the original wording.
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Short-Term Acute Care Hospitals: Download Your Q2 FY 2026 PEPPER
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services states: “CMS released the second quarter FY 2026 Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) for short-term acute care hospitals.”
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services states: “This document corrects technical and typographical errors in the final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on August 4, 2026 titled "Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Rates; Requirements for Quality Programs; Other Policy Changes; and Adoption of Updated Versions of Certain Health Information Technology Standards."”
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· Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services Administration states: “HRSA is awarding supplemental funding under the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program Evaluation Cooperative Agreement to one award recipient in fiscal year 2026 to expand analysis, evaluation, and dissemination activities that support Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and State Flex Programs.”
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· Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS posted a revised version of policy memo QSO-20-04-Hospital-CAH DPU, "Electronic Form CMS-10455, Report of a Hospital Death Associated with Restraint or Seclusion", on September 21, 2026.
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