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CMS Quality Safety & Oversight memoranda, guidance, clarifications and instructions to State Survey Agencies and CMS Locations.
Sep 6, 2023 · CMS maintains oversight for compliance with the Medicare health and safety standards for laboratories, acute and continuing care providers (including hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies (HHAs), end-stage renal disease (ESRD) facilities, hospices, and other facilities serving Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries), and makes available ...
CMS terminated many of the 1135 Emergency Waivers for Long Term Care in April 2022 (see . QSO-22-15-NH & NLTC & LSC). Information on the remaining regulatory waivers and IFC requirements for LTC facilities is listed below. 3-Day Prior Hospitalization • Pursuant to the authority granted under section 1812(f) of the Act, CMS effectively
CMS is taking the following steps which will allow SAs to focus their efforts on identifying concerns for all aspects of quality of care, quality of life, and ensuring health and safety: FIC surveys: CMS is rescinding the requirement per QSO 20-31-All to conduct FIC surveys within 3-5 days of an outbreak of COVID-19.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard, Mail Stop C2-21-16 Baltimore, Maryland 21244-1850. Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. DATE: December 2, 2021. Ref: QSO-22-04-ALL. TO: State Survey Agency Directors. FROM: Directors, Quality, Safety & Oversight Group (QSOG) and Survey & Operations Group (SOG) SUBJECT:
CMS is also reviewing QSO-22-11 to update the interpretive guidance describing Immediate Jeopardy, Condition-level and actual harm determinations to ensure that deficiency citations recognize good faith efforts by providers/suppliers and to more fully evaluate harm or potential harm to patients/residents by considering trends in COVID-19 rates i...
• CMS is revising its guidance and survey procedures for all provider types related to assessing and maintaining compliance with the staff vaccination regulatory requirements. • This memorandum replaces memoranda QSO 22-07-ALL Revised, and QSO 22-09-ALL Revised, and QSO 22-11-ALL Revised to consolidate the information into a single memorandum.
With this memorandum, CMS is revising the Phase 2 guidance to enhance quality and oversight in certain areas, such as abuse and neglect, admission, transfer, and discharge, and improving care for individuals with mental health or substance use disorder needs.
CMS recognizes the importance of ensuring that surveyors who are charged with investigating compliance with Medicare and Medicaid health and safety requirements are also mitigating the risk of COVID-19.
Check out CMS’s new Quality in Focus interactive video series. The series of 10–15 minute videos are tailored to provider types and aim to reduce the deficiencies most commonly cited during the CMS survey process, like infection control and accident prevention. Reducing these
