Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Notes:
Get A Handle On New Hospice Survey Guidance With Training
Published on Fri Mar 03, 2023
Check out what your next survey will look like by accessing new hospice surveyor training. Reminder: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued implementing guidance for hospice survey changes in Revisions to Hospice-Appendix M of the Medicare State Operations Manual and accompanying surveyor training materials. (See details of the sweeping revisions in HHHW by AAPC, Vol. XXXII, No. 6). The training, which is for both state agency and accrediting organization surveyors, is at qsep.cms.gov/ ProvidersAndOthers/publictraining.aspx. Scroll down to the “Hospice Survey Protocol Update 2023 Training” listing for the six-hour program.
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