Attn: All Wisconsin Ambulatory Surgical Centers
DQA Memo 20-005 / Guidance for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Temporarily Enrolling as a Hospital during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
Please visit the following link to view DQA Memo 20-005 / Guidance for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Temporarily Enrolling as a Hospital during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dqa/memos/20-005.pdf.
Recently the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued QSO-20-24-ASCs allowing Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASC) to temporarily enroll as hospitals and provide inpatient and outpatient hospital services to help increase hospital capacity to care for patients. To the extent that an ASC would be operating as a hospital as defined in Wis. Stat., ch. 50.33 (2), the ASC will need to become temporarily licensed as a hospital in Wisconsin. This memorandum establishes a process for ASCs to become licensed as a hospital during the COVID -19 public health emergency.
Questions
For questions regarding the information in this memo, please contact Ann Hansen, BHS Director.
Please see the DQA Memo webpage at https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dqa/memos/index.htm for more information.
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