The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new interpretive guidelines on informed consent on April 17, 2007. (Ref: S&C-07-17). Any hospital that accepts Medicare or Medicaid patients have to follow these guidelines for all patients. The regulations are published in the Federal Register and then CMS issues interpretative guidance to surveyors to explain the standard and how to survey it.
These new informed consent interpretive guidelines are available from the CMS website.
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