CMS Implements Nursing Home COVID-19 Reporting Requirement, Enhances Enforcement

(June 5, 2020, 10:01 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented a new COVID-19 reporting requirement for nursing homes and is enhancing the penalties for noncompliance with infection control procedures, particularly for facilities with a history of past infection control deficiencies or that cause actual harm to residents, the agency announced in a June 1 guidance to state survey agencies....

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