Survey & Certification Letters

• The CMS Mitigating Factors Process for Solid Organ Transplant Programs – Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) - Informational Only

  

• Long-term Care Hospital (LTCH) Moratorium – Preliminary Instructions

  

• Hospital Restraint/Seclusion Deaths to be Reported Using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Form CMS-10455, Report of a Hospital Death Associated with Restraint or Seclusion

  

• Publication of Medicare Program; Prospective Payment System and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities for FY 2015 – Nursing Home Civil Monetary Penalties - Informational Only

  

• Publication of Final Rule CLIA ‘TEST ACT” for Proficiency Testing (PT) Referral - Informational Only

  

• State Operations Manual (SOM) Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Selected Updates: Medicare Effective Date Determination for Initial Applicants; Survey & Certification Process for Initial Medicare Applicants; Medicaid-only Hospitals; & Deemed Providers/Supplie

  

• State Operations Manual (SOM) Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Selected Updates: Medicare Effective Date Determination for Initial Applicants; Survey & Certification Process for Initial Medicare Applicants; Medicaid-only Hospitals; & Deemed Providers/Supplie

  

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Post Sequester Adjustment for Special Focus Facility (SFF) Nursing Homes

  

• Publication of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Fire Safety Requirements – Informational Only

  

• Focused Minimum Data Set (MDS) and Dementia Care Surveys

  

• Interim report on the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes: Q4 2011 – Q1 2014

  

• Advance Copy: Update of State Operations Manual (SOM) Chapter 7 and Survey Process Timeframe Reminder

  

• Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)-C1 Webinar: April 30, 2014

  

• Home Health Agency (HHA) State Operations Manual (SOM) revisions: Appendix B, HHA Enforcement Guidance and revisions to Chapter 2, Certification Process

  

• Requirements for Hospital Medication Administration, Particularly Intravenous (IV) Medications and Post-Operative Care of Patients Receiving IV Opioids

  

• Interpretive Guidance for the Survey Process of the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Conditions for Coverage, published May 31, 2006, in the Federal Register – Interim Final

  

• For Information Only: Public Comments on the Report of the National Background Check Program (NBCP) Long-Term Care Criminal Convictions (LTCCC) Work Group

  

• Survey and Certification Emergency Preparedness Initiative: S&C Emergency Preparedness Checklist Revision

  

• Publication of Final Rule “Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Program and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule; Patients’ Access to Test Reports”

  

• Moratoria on Home Health Agency (HHA) Enrollment- Phase 2 - Metropolitan Areas of Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, Dallas and Houston and Extension of Moratoria on Metropolitan Areas of Miami and Chicago