The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing new oversight of accrediting organizations’ performance and other changes in response to “several concerns” the agency said have cropped up in recent years. Accrediting organizations, which regularly survey healthcare providers and suppliers to ensure they meet CMS’ health and safety standards, have lately demonstrated “inconsistent” survey results when their standards or practices sometimes differ from CMS policies, CMS wrote in a fact sheet accompanying its new proposed rule.
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Source: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/cms-proposes-greater-oversight-consulting-limitations-accrediting-organizations