CMS Updates COVID-19 Guidance for Surveys, Visitation and Testing

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the COVID-19 Focused Infection Control (FIC) Survey Tool and visitation restrictions for acute and continuing care (ACC) facilities through a revised QSO-21-08-NLTC memo.  This memo supersedes the instructions in QSO-20-16-Hospice and QSO-20-18-HHA. State survey agencies (SA) and accrediting organizations (AO) have returned to the existing standard […]

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Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its vaccination expectations for surveyors.  In January of this year CMS issued a memo (QSO-22-10-ALL) requiring state agency surveyors and accrediting organization (AO) surveyors performing deemed status surveys to not participate in onsite surveys unless fully vaccinated (unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the individual […]

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Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its vaccination expectations for surveyors.  In January of this year CMS issued a memo (QSO-22-10-ALL) requiring state agency surveyors and accrediting organization (AO) surveyors performing deemed status surveys to not participate in onsite surveys unless fully vaccinated (unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the individual […]

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Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its vaccination expectations for surveyors.  In January of this year CMS issued a memo (QSO-22-10-ALL) requiring state agency surveyors and accrediting organization (AO) surveyors performing deemed status surveys to not participate in onsite surveys unless fully vaccinated (unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the individual […]

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CMS Rescinds Focused Infection Control Survey and Visitor Restrictions for Home Health and Hospice Providers

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In January 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a revised COVID-19 Focused Infection Control Survey for Acute and Continuing Care (ACC) for providers which included home health and hospice.  This was the focused survey tool that surveyors would use for hospice and home health agency providers for any type of survey […]

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CMS Rescinds Focused Infection Control Survey and Visitor Restrictions for Home Health and Hospice Providers

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In January 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a revised COVID-19 Focused Infection Control Survey for Acute and Continuing Care (ACC) for providers which included home health and hospice.  This was the focused survey tool that surveyors would use for hospice and home health agency providers for any type of survey […]

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CMS Issues Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors Performing Federal Oversight

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding its instructions regarding criteria for surveyors when entering provider and supplier locations, in a new memo, QSO-22-10-ALL, Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors Performing Federal Oversight. CMS states that surveyors who are not fully vaccinated (unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the individual is legally entitled to  reasonable accommodation under […]

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CMS Issues Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors Performing Federal Oversight

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding its instructions regarding criteria for surveyors when entering provider and supplier locations, in a new memo, QSO-22-10-ALL, Vaccination Expectations for Surveyors Performing Federal Oversight. CMS states that surveyors who are not fully vaccinated (unless vaccination is medically contraindicated or the individual is legally entitled to  reasonable accommodation […]

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Review of Medicare’s Oversight of Accrediting Organizations

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Quality, Safety, and Oversight Group recently released a memo to all state survey agency directors regarding the FY2017 Report to Congress:  Review of Medicare’s Program Oversight of Accrediting Organizations (AOs) and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Validation Program. The CMS annual Report to Congress (RTC) […]

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