Yikes was your first reaction when you got that email from the Compliance store or CMS mailing. What do I do now? Unlike most of our customers, you were busy panicking, writing emails to your Director of Nursing. ALerting the Reginal and Administrators and probably biting your nails too.

Ref: QSO-21-15-ALL
DATE:
TO:
FROM:
March 26, 2021
State Survey Agency Directors
Director
Quality, Safety & Oversight Group
SUBJECT: Updated Guidance for Emergency Preparedness-Appendix Z of the State
Operations Manual (SOM)

WHAT IS APPENDIX Z?
(feel free to read the 73 pages)

Our clients stayed cool 😀

Some of them emailed us for updates, others didn’t even bother. When you roll with the pros, there is nothing to fear, not even a survey from CMS.

Honestly, do you want to read 113 pages from CMS latest MANDATORY email or you rather pay a few bucks and make the nightmare go away?

 

Memorandum Summary
• Burden Reduction Final Rule Interpretive Guidelines: The Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) is releasing interpretive guidelines and updates to Appendix Z of
the State Operations Manual (SOM) as a result of the revisions of the Medicare and
Medicaid Programs; Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency,
and Burden Reduction (CoPs) (CMS 3346-F) Final Rule.
• Expanded Guidance related to Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs): CMS is also
providing additional guidance based on best practices, lessons learned and general
recommendations for planning and preparedness for EID outbreaks.

We do pride ourselves on being the experts in the field.

 

Smash that CMS logo below to breeze through survey

 

Hey, we told you so.