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Article: CMS targets nursing home quality.( Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services )
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- Compliance Hotline
- Article date:
- October 28, 2002
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Nursing home enforcement remains "an enormous issue," Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Tom Scully warned health care providers earlier this month. He added that quality of nursing homes is now one of the agency's highest priorities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) listed nursing homes as one its top priorities in its Work Plan for FY 2003.
As a result of collaboration among federal agencies, Scully says several major cases are "close to resolution." However, several veteran health care attorneys say CMS is mixing apples and oranges by tying its quality and enforcement efforts too ...