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Survey Inconsistency Bedevils Agencies

Published on Fri Dec 15, 2017

Wide variation in how surveyors apply the new Home Health Conditions of Participation could hamper home health agencies' efforts to get up to speed on CoP compliance. "My worry is that different state survey agencies and surveyors ... will survey differently," says consultant Sharon Litwin with 5 Star Consultants. That's what they do now, she insists. "Currently some surveyors don't [...]
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