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End of 2017 Marked by Scaling Back of Obama Era Nursing Home Financial Penalties under the Trump Administration

Posted by Health Law Informer Author on January 05, 2018
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CMS outlined changes to the nursing home survey process in a October 2017 memo to state survey agency directors, which scaled down the use and severity of civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for certain nursing home deficiencies. Shortly thereafter, CMS released a November 2017 memo that among other things, outlined an 18-month moratorium on the imposition of CMPs, discretionary denials of payment for new admissions and discretionary termination by surveyors for survey deficiencies identified by the following eight  “F” tags: Continue reading…

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