Skilled Nursing News January 23, 2024
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will be auditing nursing home survey practices this year with results expected in 2025, following concerns that third-party contractors may not have sufficient oversight in the space.
OIG suggested closer scrutiny of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulatory practices when it came to surveys, given the federal agency’s reliance on such contractors for conducting both state and federal surveys, on top of tackling survey backlogs.
“Prior OIG reviews of nursing homes have identified multiple issues related to the backlog of required nursing home surveys conducted by State survey agencies,” OIG said in a recent work plan announcement. “To combat this backlog, State survey agencies have increasingly used third-party contractors to...
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