# Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Fire Safety Requirements for Certain Health Care Facilities
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2016-05-04 · Effective 2016-07-05 · 81 FR 26872
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-10043
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 26872
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 403
- **Publication date:** 2016-05-04
- **Effective date:** 2016-07-05
- **HHS docket:** CMS-3277-F
## Abstract

This final rule will amend the fire safety standards for Medicare and Medicaid participating hospitals, critical access hospitals (CAHs), long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF-IID), ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), hospices which provide inpatient services, religious non-medical health care institutions (RNHCIs), and programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) facilities. Further, this final rule will adopt the 2012 edition of the Life Safety Code (LSC) and eliminate references in our regulations to all earlier editions of the Life Safety Code. It will also adopt the 2012 edition of the Health Care Facilities Code, with some exceptions.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/05/04/2016-10043/medicare-and-medicaid-programs-fire-safety-requirements-for-certain-health-care-facilities)
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