Episode 158 - ASC Podcast with John Goehle - Latest News and Information, revised Interpretive Guidelines focus segment on Accrediting Organization Oversight and top 2022 Citations - June 3, 2022 - a podcast by John Goehle

On this Episode of the ASC Podcast with John Goehle,  we provide an update on the latest news including revised interpretive guidelines and in our focus segment discuss the 2020 Review of Medicare’s Program Oversight of Accrediting Organizations and list the top citations so far in 2022.  

 

This episode sponsored by Surgical Information Systems and  Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies. 

Resources from this Episode:

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data about Retirements:
  • Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that more adults age 65 and older left the labor force in 2020 than in any year since the US began tracking such information in 1948
  
  
  
  


• Memo #QSO-22-16-ASC - Updated Guidance for Ambulatory Surgical Centers - Appendix L of the State Operations Manual (SOM)
  • https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-22-16-asc.pdf
  
  
  
  


• Accrediting Organization Compliance with CfC

• https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-22-06-ao-clia.pdf


• https://www.cms.gov/medicareprovider-enrollment-and-certificationsurveycertificationgeninfopolicy-and-memos-states-and/fy-2020-report-congress-rtc-review-medicares-program-oversight-accrediting-organizations-aos-and

• Conditions for Coverage:
  • https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=42:3.0.1.1.3&idno=42#se42.3.416_150
  
  
  
  


• Interpretive Guidelines for ASCs
  • https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manuals/downloads/som107ap_l_ambulatory.pdf
  
  
  
  


• Policy & Memos to States and Regions
  • CMS Quality Safety & Oversight memoranda, guidance, clarifications and instructions to State Survey Agencies and CMS Regional Offices.
  
  
  • https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions
  
  
  
  

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