42 C.F.R. § 441.154

Active treatment.

Last amended: 2017Year: 2026Length: 53 wordsSubsections: 2Official source

Cite as 42 C.F.R. § 441.154 (2026)

Inpatient psychiatric services must involve “active treatment”, which means implementation of a professionally developed and supervised individual plan of care, described in § 441.155 that is— (a) Developed and implemented no later than 14 days after admission; and (b) Designed to achieve the beneficiary's discharge from inpatient status at the earliest possible time.
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