The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Save time searching the CMS website for the regulations and interpretations you need. Navigating the CMS website to find accurate Medicare and Medicaid hospital regulations is a difficult and confusing task, and printing out hundreds of pages is costly and time-consuming. HCPro has taken the most recent version of CMS' Conditions of Participation and the corresponding Interpretive Guidelinesand reprinted them in an easy-to-use format. This book will help you: * Comply with the latest CoP updates, including new requirements for post-survey procedures, Immediate Jeopardy, and restraint and seclusion death reporting * Stay current on updates to the Interpretive Guidelines, including discharge planning, humidity in the operating room, and the use of insulin pens * Save time looking up CMS regulations-both the CoPs and the Interpretive Guidelines are combined into one hard copy publication * Easily recognize specific changes to CMS regulations-including recent restraint and seclusion regulation changes-through highlighted copy called out in the text * Avoid the inconvenience and expense of having to print regulations from the CMS website * Prepare for a CMS site visit using the included detailed description of CMS survey protocol * Introduction - Summary of recent changes - CMS memos every hospital should know - How to track updates * Appendix A - Appendix A Survey Protocol - Appendix A Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines