Has your psychiatric hospital been cited by CMS for an Immediate Jeopardy situation? If so, “Immediate Jeopardy” can be a somewhat frightening term. What exactly does it mean and what are the implications? Most importantly, how should you respond? In this article, we...
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Are you up to speed on how CMS is instructing its surveyors to cite Immediate Jeopardy? Effective March 5, 2019, CMS revised its surveyor guidelines for citing cases of Immediate Jeopardy. The goal is to make decisions about Immediate Jeopardy more consistent across...
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Be aware! CMS will now post CMS complaint survey results on their new website. CMS communicated this in their memo QSO-19-01 on October 4th. This means if CMS conducts a complaint survey at an accredited hospital, they will post their official report of findings (the...
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At the Consultants Forum meeting in Chicago, Joint Commission COO Mark Pelletier announced an interesting new approach TJC and CMS are piloting. It’s a concurrent validation survey process. This means CMS surveyors conduct their CMS validation survey at the same time...
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Are you a psychiatric hospital that uses your Joint Commission accreditation for deemed status to satisfy Medicare certification requirements? If so, there’s an important new TJC Accreditation Participation Requirement for you to be aware of. Effective July 1, 2018,...
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