Survey & Certification Letters

• Revision to State Operations Manual (SOM), Hospital Appendix A - Interpretive Guidelines for 42 CFR 482.43, Discharge Planning

  

• Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Medicare Enrollment Guidance Updated

  

• Delayed Publication of Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Program Specific Reports (PSR) and Implications for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Transplant Program Oversight

  

• Utilizing the US Bureau of the Census’ (Census Bureau) American FactFinder 2010 Census Data for Rural Area Location Determinations - Hospital Swing Beds & Rural Health Clinics (RHC)

  

• Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID) –Nomenclature Change (Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional (QIDP)

  

• Relative Humidity (RH): Waiver of Life Safety Code (LSC) Anesthetizing Location Requirements; Discussion of Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Operating Room Requirements

  

• Clarification of the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Criteria for Rural Location and Mountainous Terrain Distance Standard

  

• Update of State Operations Manual (SOM) Chapter 5, Complaint Investigation

  

• Report of the National Background Check Program (NBCP) Long-Term Care (LTC) Criminal Convictions Work Group

  

• FY2013 Sequestration Adjustments for Survey & Certification (S&C)

  

• Life Safety Code (LSC) Short Form Survey for Nursing Homes – Limited Option

  

• Access to Statements of Deficiencies (CMS-2567) on the Web for Skilled Nursing Facilities, Nursing Facilities, Hospitals,& Critical Access Hospitals

  

• AHRQ Common Formats - Information for Hospitals and State Survey Agencies (SAs) - Comprehensive Patient Safety Reporting Using AHRQ Common Formats

  

• Guidance for Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) Related to Various Rules Reducing Provider/Supplier Burden

  

• Luer Misconnection Adverse Events

  

• Physician Delegation of Tasks in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) and Nursing Facilities (NFs)

  

• F tag 155-- Advance Directives- Revised Advance Copy

  

• F tag 322—Naso-Gastric Tubes - Revised Advance Copy

  

• Revised Roll-Out of the New End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Core Survey Process

  

• Notice -Ninth Opportunity National Background Check Program Funding