Survey & Certification Letters

• Publication of NPRM for Emergency Preparedness – Informational Only

  

• Hospital Equipment Maintenance Requirements

  

• QAPI Condition-Level Deficiency in Transplant Re-approval, Complaint and Focused Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (F-QAPI) Surveys for Organ Transplant Programs – Informational Only

  

• Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Requirements & Conflicting Payor Requirements or Collection Practices

  

• Use of Direct for the Secure Transmission of Laboratory Test Results

  

• Citations at F Tag 454 – 42 CFR §483.70 Physical Environment, §483.70(a) Life Safety from Fire

  

• Questions + Answers for State Recovery after the Federal Government Shutdown

  

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in Nursing Homes

  

• Contingency Plans – State Survey & Certification Activities in the Event of Federal Government Shutdown

  

• Acquisitions of Providers/Suppliers with Rejection of Automatic Assignment of the Medicare Provider Agreement: Implications for Timing of Surveys and Participation Effective Date

  

• Escrow and Independent Informal Dispute Resolution (Independent IDR) Process for Nursing Homes – Applicable to All Civil Money Penalties (CMPs)

  

• 2000 Edition National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101® Life Safety Code (LSC) Waivers

  

• Release of Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment’s (CLIA) Brochure #11, CLIA Individualized Quality Control Plan Introduction

  

• Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Discharge Assessments that Have Not Been Completed and/or Submitted

  

• Enforcement Actions - Installation of Automatic Sprinkler Systems in Nursing Homes - August 13, 2013 Deadline

  

• Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP): A New Quality Control (QC) Option

  

• Approval of the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality’s (CIHQ) Hospital Accreditation Program

  

• Temporary Moratorium on Home Health Agency (HHA) Enrollment-Metropolitan Areas of Miami and Chicago

  

• Notification of Facility Closure: Revisions to Tags F203 and F204 and Issuance of New Tags F523 and F524 in the State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix PP

  

• Pilot-Test: Focused Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (F-QAPI) Surveys for Organ Transplant Programs – Informational Only