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CMS to States: Resume Routine On-site Surveys and Address Backlogged Enforcement Cases
During March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took steps to focus survey efforts toward infection control and complaints that alleged immediate jeopardy (IJ) to patient/resident health and safety, and to limit revisit surveys to those necessary to verify removal of previously identified IJ […]
Read MoreCMS Issues Transmittal on Guidelines for Determining Immediate Jeopardy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released Transmittal 187, Revision to the State Operations Manual (SOM 100-07) Appendix Q, dated March 6, 2019. The purpose of the Transmittal is to add a new appendix, Appendix Q – Core Guidelines for Determining Immediate Jeopardy, to the CMS State Operations Manual to standardize the key […]
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