Home Health & Hospice Week

If you’re accredited by a third-party organization like JCAHO or CHAP, you don’t have to worry about your survey dirty laundry getting aired — at least not any time soon.

In a proposed rule, CMS proposed requiring Accrediting Organizations “to post provider/supplier survey reports and plans of corrections from CMS approved accreditation programs on their public-facing websites,” CMS notes in a fact sheet about the Fiscal Year 2018 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule published in the Aug. 14 Federal Register (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVI, No. 23).

“After consideration of the public comments received, CMS decided that it would be best if the proposal was not finalized and instead, the proposal was withdrawn,” the fact sheet says. The agency will pursue “further review, consideration, and refinement of this proposal,” however, it says.