History and Physicals: Meeting Hospital CoPs in 2026
History and Physicals: Meeting Hospital CoPs in 2026
MHA Members $200.00 | Non-MHA Members $350.00
Tuesday, July 21 | 9:00 - 10:30 AM
Offered Through Partnership with Georgia Hospital Association
OVERVIEW:
In 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made a change stating that healthy outpatients may not be required to have a full history and physical. This session will explain how to implement this rule and discuss policy requirements, medical staff and board approval, revised medical staff bylaws, and more.??
This program will also cover what should be in the history and physical and how to comply with the CMS hospital Conditions of Participation (CoPs).
Hospitals should ensure that hospital policies and procedures meet the history and physical requirements. Medical staff bylaws must also comply with the regulations and interpretive guidelines and standards.??
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
• Recall that CMS has history and physical requirements in the hospital Conditions of Participation that all hospitals accepting Medicare must follow.
• Describe that the hospital must have medical staff bylaws and policies that include the requirements for history and physicals.
• Discuss how hospitals can implement the new rule that history and physicals do not need to be done on healthy outpatients.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Compliance Officer, Emergency Department Personnel, Joint Commission Coordinator, Medical Records, Quality Improvement personnel, Risk Manager, Legal Counsel.
FACULTY:
Laura A. Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM
Laura A. Dixon served as the director of risk management and patient safety for the Colorado Region of Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the director of facility patient safety and risk management and operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states.
Dixon has more than 20 years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, perioperative services, and pain management. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the Western region director of patient safety and risk management for The Doctors Company in Napa, California.
As a registered nurse and attorney, Dixon holds a Bachelor of Science from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a registered nurse diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.
This speaker has no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this presentation.