SB 687

2021 Wisconsin Act 10

specifies standards for certain services provided by

hospitals in a home setting. “Hospital-associated services” as defined in Act 10 are

health care services that are the same type of services as those provided by a hospital

in an inpatient or outpatient facility, that are of the type for which a federal Medicare

program payment could be claimed as a hospital service, and that are provided in a

home setting instead of a setting that is approved as a hospital by the Department

of Health Services. If the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

has approved a hospital to provide any hospital-associated service, DHS may apply

and enforce as the state standard for the service the CMS rule or standard on the

hospital. A hospital that complies with Act 10 is not required to be licensed as a home

health agency to provide hospital-associated services. The provisions of Act 10 apply

to hospital-associated services provided before January 1, 2022. This bill eliminates

the termination date of these provisions in Act 10 and thus continues the application

of Act 10's provision.