The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is set to roll out risk-based surveys on a more broad basis, with final ...

Certain flexibilities that the federal government provided for telehealth services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries expired on Sept. 30, 20In light of the continued federal government shutdown (the ...

More oversight is coming for nursing home providers after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services directed surveyors to take a more critical look at nurse competency and residents’ quality of ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new Quality, Safety and Oversight guidance on March 11, 2026, with respect to the ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Question : Does the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do big surveys ? I don’t mean after a particular treatment ; I ...

CMS informed states on Nov. 5 that resources for initial surveys would be severely limited. In a memo CMS stated that new providers and suppliers would be to be given the lowest priority — and that ...

CMS received final approval April 23 to conduct a survey to collect drug acquisition costs for hospitals in the 340B drug-pricing program, a survey hospitals in the program have strongly opposed. CMS ...

CMS told its own state survey agencies in January it was putting a general hold on hospital surveys, except for those dealing with immediate jeopardy situations, for at least 30 days, in recognition ...

Expect the Joint Commission (TJC) and HFAP to follow suit as they work out details with CMS. Editor's note: This article was originally published by the HCPro Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center ...