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Partners Jody Erdfarb and Maureen Weaver Published in McKnights
On January 11, 2022, Partners Jody Erdfarb‘s and Maureen Weaver‘s article titled, “Preparing for a new reality: Hospice survey enforcement in 2022,” was published in McKnight’s Home Care. The article discusses new challenges that home hospices can expect in 2022 and how to prepare for them.
Jody and Maureen explain, “On Jan. 1, 2022, new survey and enforcement regulations for Medicare-certified hospice programs took effect, allowing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to impose a range of enforcement penalties for each condition-level deficiency identified during federal surveys, similar to CMS’s enforcement authority over skilled nursing facilities and home healthcare agencies.”
Within the article, Jody and Maureen emphasize the importance of being prepared stating, “Home hospice providers should get prepared now to avoid survey penalties. Here are steps that home hospices can take before, during, and after the survey to reduce the risk of a bad survey outcome…”
To read the article, click here.
