HHA Listing Requirements Reissued in Revised Hospital Discharge Planning IGs

On May 17th the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Revision to State Operations Manual (SOM), Hospital Appendix A – Interpretive Guidelines for 42 CFR 482.43, Discharge Planning, which is available online here. Although the major focus of revisions is to consolidate the prior twenty-four discharge planning tags into thirteen, the guidelines emphasize…