Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Religious Nonmedical Health Care Institutions and Advance Directives

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This rule deletes all references to Christian Science sanatoria and sets forth the Medicare requirements for coverage and payment of services furnished by religious nonmedical health care institutions. It also sets forth the conditions of participation that religious nonmedical health care institutions must meet before they can participate in Medicare. It sets forth the methods we will use to pay religious nonmedical health care institutions and monitor expenditures for religious nonmedical health care institution services. Additionally, the rule presents the rules governing optional coverage of religious nonmedical health care institution services by States under the Medicaid program.