Home Health & Hospice Week
Surveyor Training Tweak May Save Your Survey
Arevision to home health surveyor training may help HHAs avoid unnecessary Conditionlevel deficiencies.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ HHA Survey Protocols “provide guidance to assist surveyors in determining when a Condition-level deficiency may be considered,” CMS says in Survey & Cert Letter 15-52-HHA. Old way: “Previous trainings emphasized that the phrase ‘consider citing the Condition’ implied the surveyor ‘should’ cite the Condition,” CMS says.
New way: “We have since revised our training in this area to indicate that surveyors may consider citing the Condition when indicated by the regulation but the phrase should not be taken as a prescriptive element of the guidance over surveyor judgment,” according to the Sept. 11 letter at www.cms.gov/Medicare/ProviderEnrollmentandCertification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Downloads/Survey-and-Cert-Letter-15-52.pdf.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Surveyor Training Tweak May Save Your Survey
Arevision to home health surveyor training may help HHAs avoid unnecessary Conditionlevel deficiencies. The Centers [...] - Industry Note:
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