Certified Beds

2 - Certified Beds The Medicare/Medicaid program does not actually “certify” beds. This term means counted beds in the certified provider or supplier facility or in the certified component. A count of facility beds may differ depending on whether the count is used for licensure, eligibility for Medicare payment formulas, eligibility for waivers, or other purposes. For Form CMS-1539, all the following are excluded from “certified beds”: pediatric visitors, newborn nursery cribs, maternity labor and delivery beds, intensive therapy beds which a patient occupies for only a short time (such as in radiation therapy units), and temporary extra beds. The following are included: designated bed locations (even though an actual bed is not in evidence) and beds which a patient occupies for an extensive period of time in special care units such as cancer treatment units as well as all routine inpatient beds.