[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 80 (Monday, April 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 17601]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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rescinded.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 https://www.regulations.gov/search/docket?filter=cms-2025-0016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: [email protected]. 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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